CLAIMING THE LAND

British Columbia and the Making of a New Eldorado

By Daniel Marshall

An explosive new account of the 1858 Fraser River gold rush and the American miners who, in the “Canyon War,” tried to wipe out the Indigenous population and annex the country to the U.S. — saved by the negotiating tactics of Chief Spintlum (Cexpe’nthlEm) at Lytton.

$24.95. PAPERBACK. 400 PGS. ISBN 978-1-55380-502-1 ISBN 978-1-55380-503-8 RONSDALE PRESS