Jaquelin Smith Holliday II was an American historian.
Occupation
historian
Citizenship
United States
Born
June 10, 1924
Died
August 31, 2006
Overview
Jaquelin Smith Holliday II (10 June 1924 – 31 August 2006) was an American historian.
Notable works
Holliday wrote a masterly history of the California Gold Rush that capped three decades of painstaking research on the era.
Holliday's The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, first published in 1981, is noteworthy for its innovative narrative style that blends scholarly commentary and analysis with words of the miners themselves and their families.
