A World turned upside down -- The First Californians -- The Argonauts -- The Overland Trail -- The Great American desert -- In the diggings -- The Other gold rush -- Children in the mines -- Phoenix City -- Gold Mountain -- Blood scattered like water -- The End of La Fiebre de Oro -- After the Gold Rush.
Illustrates the event which drew thousands of people to California and its effect on the gold seekers, the Spanish settlers, and the native Indian tribes who lived there.