Winner - 2001 WILLA Award
Best Historical Fiction
"JoAnn Levy is one marvelous researcher and a fine novelist,
and she has dramatized the total gold rush experience like
no one before her." - Folio
"compassionate and captivating...written lyrically and from the heart, with
an exceptional portrayal of day to day life that allows the reader to enter
another world" - Placerville Mountain Democrat
"vivid and affecting....commands the reader's awe and deep sympathies....
a fine work of historical fiction" - Dallas Morning News.
"a quietly eloquent tale" - Publishers Weekly
"evokes the landscape of a now-vanished countryside....fills a crucial gap"
- San Francisco Chronicle
"skillfully weaves historical details of everyday life, the landscape and
the politics"-Denver Post
"Crowded with authentic detail, written with enviable grace and flair,
For California's Gold offers its readers a memorable story of tragedy and
courage. In sum, JoAnn Levy has enriched gold rush literature."
- J. S. Holliday, author, Rush for Riches, and director emeritus, California
Historical Society
"Heroically assimilating the primary sources of the Gold Rush, JoAnn Levy
has created a novel that speaks with the panoramic force of history and the
intimate voice of private experience. Here in fiction based on the record
is the story of how one woman, alongside other women, left home, crossed
the continent, loved, suffered, served, prevailed, embraced life and helped
found a commonwealth." -Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California
"What a pleasure to read a work of fiction that so effectively captures
the historical authenticity of the gold rush period....a fine piece of
work!" -Malcolm Rohrbough, author, Days of Gold, and professor of history,
University of Iowa
"I LOVED the book! Levy is a master at weaving history and humanity into a
powerful, haunting, and unforgettable tale of hope, despair, courage, and
passion." - Marlene Smith-Baranzini, editor, The Shirley Letters from the
California Mines, 1851-1852
"A remarkable act of historical imagination, this richly detailed novel
(based on eyewitness accounts) brings the day-to-day life of the gold rush
vibrantly alive. As in her first novel, Daughter of Joy, JoAnn Levy has
shown she has a great gift for delving inside historical characters.... A
compelling read." -Michael Kowalewski, past president Western Literature
Association, and editor, Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration
For California's Gold
A Novel by JoAnn Levy
University Press of Colorado
ISBN 0-87081-566-0 $24.95
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