Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush

5 best books like Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (Susan Lee Johnson): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, The Orchardist, While I Was Gone, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	0385480016

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...

The Orchardist

Author

Amanda Coplin

Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift family whose dramatic lives are shaped by violence, love, and an indelible connection to the land.

You belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.

At the turn of the twentieth century, in a...

While I Was Gone

Author	Sue Miller
ISBN	0345443284

Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her...

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Author

Linda Gordon

In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped...

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Author	Yvon Chouinard
ISBN	0143037838

In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the...