The gold rush / a Yellow Jersey Films, Inc. production for American Experience in association with KQED ; produced by Randall MacLowry & Laura Longsworth ; directed by Randall MacLowry ; written by Michelle Ferrari.

At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kusiak, John (Composer)
Corporate Authors:	Yellow Jersey Films, KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.), PBS Home Video
Other Authors:	MacLowry, Randall (Producer, Director), Longsworth, Laura (Producer), Ferrari, Michelle (Screenwriter), Murphy, Michael, 1938- (Narrator)
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Published:	[Arlington, Va.] : PBS Home Video, 2006.
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:	California > Gold discoveries. United States > Gold discoveries. West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890. California > History > 1850-1950. San Francisco (Calif.) American River (Calif.) Migration, Internal > California > San Francisco. Television programs. Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. Educational television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Educational > Television series.
Genre:	Television programs. Documentary television programs. Historical television programs. Educational television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Educational Television series.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD