The Romance of the Age; Or, the Discovery of Gold in California.

New York, NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1867. First Edition. Smal octavoin dark blue institutional cloth boards with gilt spine title; 134 pages; frontispiece (portrait), 2 plates; 19 cm Ex-library; boards are strong with general but mild wear to extremities and library markings to foot of spine; large bookplate on front pastedown; occasional hole punches and library stamps to pages, none greatly impeding legibility; neat and strongly bound with lightest foxing on front flyleaf and small sticker scar on lower fourth of rear pastedown. Hardcover.

Written less than thirty years out from the height of gold fever in California. Contents: Introduction. Early history of Sutter. Remarkable combination of events attending the discovery of gold. Attempt of the Americans to acquire California; The Bear Flag. The Mexican War; The Americans take possession of California. California conquered. The Mormons. The end of the Mexican War; Acquisition of California. Establishment of the Pacific Mail Line of Steamers. The trip of the first passengers from New York to San Francisco by steamer. No positive knowledge of the existence of gold in California, previous to its discovery. Sutter's condition in 1848. Marshall. Location of the saw-mill. Discovery of the gold. The discovery of gold becomes public. Consequences of the discovery to Marshall. Consequences of the discovery to Sutter.