J. S. Holliday
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. Kevin Starr, a California historian and former state librarian, describes Holliday as a pioneer of the docudrama narrative. Documentarian Ken Burns featured Holliday in his PBS series The West, and once said "no one writes better about California's irresistible past." Holliday's narrative drew heavily from the diaries and correspondence of William Swain, a farmer in Youngstown, New York who made a seven-month trek to California in 1849. Swain penned detailed accounts of his transcontinental journey. Holli ...
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