How Long to Read Mining Camps of Placer County

How Long Does it Take to Read Mining Camps of Placer County?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 29 minutes to read Mining Camps of Placer County by Carmel Barry-Schweyer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name--the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel--to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of "Gold on the American River!" in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims "panned out," thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley. Some camps disappeared along with the easy placer gold; others found new methods to extract gold deposited deep in quartz veins or underground and developed into stable towns that still stand. Sometimes washing whole hillsides into rivers, hydraulic mining was outlawed in the 1880s, but the colorful characters and tall tales of the Gold Rush live on.

How long is Mining Camps of Placer County?

Mining Camps of Placer County by Carmel Barry-Schweyer is 146 pages long, and a total of 37,376 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mining Camps of Placer County Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Mining Camps of Placer County aloud.

What Reading Level is Mining Camps of Placer County?

Mining Camps of Placer County is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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