Greenbacks and Copperheads, 1859-1869 (Neveda County Chronicles)

By David Allan Comstock, previously author of Gold Diggers and Camp Followers, 1845-1851 and Brides of the Gold Rush, 1951-1859, the first two books in this historical trilogy. ISBN 0-933994-12-5. This book, like its two predecessors, recounts the lives of real Americans as revealed in the Rensselaerville Correspondence, a wonderful collection of nineteenth-century letters, and in local newspapers of the time. It focuses on the activities of people in such California gold camps as Nevada City, Grass Valley, Rough and Ready, You Bet, and Red Dog, but also relates the experiences of their friends and relatives in Iowa and New York.