Topic Research

Project Research

I will be basing my literary project on the story "The Luck of the Roaring Camp." I plan to go in depth about why it could be considered an artifact of history, and what it teaches about history. I think that the Luck of the Roaring camp has a lot of insight on those who migrated to California during the gold rush ear, and I also think that this piece show some insight on the treatment of women as well as Native Americans during this time period. I want to go much deeper into what this story has to offer to extract as much information about the time period as I can get from this piece. I think that this story has a lot to offer about history because it shows the reader the mindsets and the types of people that were around these camps during the time. In my case all I ever learned about goldpanners was the reason they came to California and where they set up their camps. I feel like this story can give much more insight into the types of people these goldpanners were, as well as the conditions and lives a goldpanner could have. Also, the way the men on the camp treat Cherokee Sal could be indicative of the way they treated women and Native Americans during the time since Cherokee Sal was both of these. I hope to learn more about the time period and learn more about what "The Luck of Roaring Camp" truly means.