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In 1849 the United States saw the start of an extraordinary migration which lasted over a decade and involved several hundred thousand Europeans, Russian and Americans. Striking out across the old U.S. and the ‘Great American Desert’, their goal was the gold fields of California and their dream was to strike it rich and return home within a year. None did, but the Gold Rush epitomized the American Dream and was a defining moment in the country’s short history.

Following the same historic roads and trails taken by the argonauts 150 years earlier, this is John Stuart Clark’s story of retracing that great adventure. More than a journey through history, AFTER THE GOLD RUSH is a chronicle of the America and Americans he encountered at the turn of the twenty-first century, before 9-11 transformed the nation. Undertaken at a time when the worst tornado on record struck the mid-West, the worst school massacre shook the nation, and the worst case of a president caught with his flies open was slobbered over, it is the tale of a 3,000 mile trek across mountains and deserts, through ghettos and wildernesses, against sandstorms, hurricanes and blazing heat.

And it is a journey undertaken on a nineteenth century vehicle - by bicycle, itself presenting problems which added a touch of the absurd to the odyssey. Drawing under the pen name BRICK, John is the UK’s leading development cartoonist and his sense of the ridiculous shines through the telling of this epic narrative.

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