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Edward Dolnick

Biography

Edward Dolnick

Edward Dolnick is the author of THE FORGER'S BELL, DOWN THE GREAT UNKNOWN and the Edgar Award-winning THE RESCUE ARTIST. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine and many other publications. There are over 130,000 copies of his books in print. He lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.

Edward Dolnick

Books by Edward Dolnick

by Edward Dolnick - History, Nonfiction

In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In THE RUSH, Edward Dolnick recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos.