Art of the gold rush

Foreword / Stephen C. McGough and Dennis M. Power

Acknowledgments / Harvey L. Jones, Janice T. Driesbach and Katherine C. Holland

Map of the gold country

Introduction: The lure of gold / Janice T. Driesbach

First in the field: Thomas A. Ayres and E. Hall Martin / Janice T. Driesbach and Harvey L. Jones

Scenes of mining life: John Prendergast, Augusto Ferran, William Mcilvaine, W. Taber, William Birch Mcmurtrie, Harrison Eastman, Samuel Stillman Osgood, A.G., John Henry Dunnel, Washington F. Friend, John Woodhouse Audubon, Francis Samuel Marryat, and E. Godchaux / Janice T. Driesbach

Portrait painter to the elite: William Smith Jewett / Janice T. Driesbach

The Hessian party: Charles Christian Nahl, Arthur Nahl, and August Wenderoth / Harvey L. Jones

Souvenirs of the mother lode: Ernest Narjot and George Henry Burgess / Harvey L. Jones

Mining the picturesque: A.D.O. Browere / Janice T. Driesbach.