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Dominican University of California
The History of the City of Marysville, California 1852-1859
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The economic growth of Marysville from 1851 to 1859 forms an interesting chapter in the development of California. The discovery of gold along the Yuba and Feather rivers brought an influx Of miners into the Northern Sierra Nevada and their need for supplies gave rise to a trading settlement at the spot where the Yuba joins the Feather. The development of Marysville as a mining base town and then as an agricultural center provides an interesting study of the mining frontier in California.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Humanities
- Year
- 1962
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Desmond, M. Belinda
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/102
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1101