Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4886
Points per Word
0.000205
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Daily Life
Description
This book discusses the California gold rush including the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, the migration of people to California, camps, crime, racism, and frontier justice that followed. The coauthor is P.M. Boekhoff.