After the gold rush: Replicating the rural midwest in the Sacramento Valley Academic Article

abstract

• In the 1850s and 1860s, prior to California's bonanza wheat era, a prominent agricultural community emerged along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley. This was a community of considerable stability, despite being settled by displaced 49ers - speculators, squatters, and "swamplanders" - on a fraudulent Mexican land grant. Capitalist and traditional values, imported from the Midwest, sustained them. Copyright 2003, Western History Association.

authors

• Vaught, David

published proceedings

• WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY

author list (cited authors)

• Vaught, D.

complete list of authors

• Vaught, D

publication date

• January 2003

published in

• Western Historical Quarterly  Journal

start page

• 447

end page

• 467

volume

• 34

issue

• 4