Blacks in Gold Rush California by Rudolph M. Lapp - 1977

Yale University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The publisher's review slip announcing a publication date of Sept. 21, 1977 is laid in. Beautiful yellow cloth boards, the DJ is unfaded..

United Kingdom: Yale Univ Pr. 321 pages. Minor mark on one page of a clean hardback in a sun faded dust jacket. Blacks in Gold Rush California . Very Good. Hardcover. 1977.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Yale University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. Inscribed to the ffep by Lapp in the year of publication. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is a bit faded to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Binghamton, NY: Yale University Press, 1977. First edition. Very good/Very good -. 321pp. Octavo [21.4cm]. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering on the spine. Front head fore-edge corner bumped. Spine slightly rubbed at head and tail. Price clipped dust jacket. Slightly rubbed at extremities and discolored on the back. In the two years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in 1848, one hundred thousand persons made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. One thousand of them were blacks. By 1860 there were five thousand. They formed the largest voluntary migration of American blacks before the Civil War. Yet few whites then or now have been aware of the part that blacks played in America's epic adventure. After years spent in combing through a great variety of disparate source materials, Rudolph M. Lapp has pieced together into a coherent and fascinating narrative this missing chapter of history. Most black Forty-niners went west less to escape a hard lot than… Read More

Yale University Press, 1977-09-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!