Mountains and Molehills: Recollections of the Californian Gold Rush

Marryat crafts a vivid portrait of San Francisco and surrounding districts during the 1850–1852 Gold Rush, revealing entrepreneurial vigor, peril, and social upheaval.

Mountains and Molehills is essential reading for anyone wishing to build a mental picture of San Francisco and the Sacramento areas during the period of the Gold Rush from 1850 to 1852.
With wit and charming powers of description, Marryat paints a picture of American entrepreneurial genius in this rich land—rich in virgin soils...