Talk:Days of '49

Contemporary reviews

 * The Bookman January 1926: A story of the California gold rush that is filled with excitement and beautifully written.


 * The Saturday Review of Literature, 26 December 1925: Mr. Young's pictorial chronicle of the California gold rush dwarfs to insignificance preceding novels which have attempted, even with moderate success, to reconstruct the life of that fabulous and violent era. His book is a melodrama of the "super" species, immense in scope, so densely and yet distinctly peopled that its effect is that of watching a multitude moving constantly in menacing or defensive tumult. Striking single incidents, imaginatively evolved from fragments of historic record, produce the most brilliant passages, but there has been no slighting of plot, love interest, the clash of villainous and heroic characters, all of which attain a correspondingly high level. For a romance of this type the story is close to perfection.