Featured on PDR in the essay Comic Gold: The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics
The California Gold Rush transformed the landscape and population of the United States. It also introduced a new figure into American life and the American imagination — the effete Eastern urbanite who travels to the Wild West in quest of his fortune. Alex Andriesse examines how this figure fares in three mid-nineteenth-century comic books.
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The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California: I Neither Borrow nor Lend
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1849
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