Roarin Camp
... Professor Susan Lee Johnson, author of Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush writes a secondary account of the California Gold Rush from a much different approach and perspective than modern elementary scholastics popularly teach. ... In the preface Professor Johnson says that the “task of this book (Roaring Camp) is both to interrogate and to dismantle the stories white American’s have told themselves about the California Gold Rush, and furthermore to offer a pastiche of tales that will help us to think as complexly and critically about the conquest of history as we have begun to think about the history of conquest. ... The “Rush” section of Professor Johnson’s Roaring Camp describes socially how and why there was a surge of people heading West to the gold mining camps. ... The “Rush” section of Roaring Camp is an incredible social phenomena in American history. ... The next section in Professor Johnson’s Roaring Camp is what she calls the “Boom” of the Gold Rush. ... The last section of Roaring Camp is called “Bust”. ... In Johnson’s preface she writes that the task of the Roaring Camp is to uncover, dismantle, and acknowledge the social complexities of the California Gold Rush.