Author : Stephanie Watson
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1467785806
"The California gold rush lasted only seven years, but it affected people around the world. Track the important events and turning points that made the discovery of gold a pivotal part of the westward expansion of the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Stephanie Watson
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467786373
In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall discovered that there was gold in the riverbeds of the Sacramento Valley. Gold fever quickly spread across the country and around the world. By the thousands, hopeful people left their homes, families, and jobs in search of their fortune. The California gold rush lasted for only seven years, but in that time it transformed California and affected the whole nation. People used their new riches to start businesses and build cities. People from many nations arrived to fill those cities. And in their quest for gold, the prospectors clashed with American Indians and set the stage for long-lasting tensions. Explore the history of the California gold rush. Track the important events and turning points that made this discovery a pivotal part of the westward expansion of the United States.
Author : Benjamin Mountford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520967585
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Author : Kerri O'Donnell
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435858522
Provides a chronological overview of the gold rush, discussing what it was like to live and work in the mining towns, how it changed people's lives, and what happened when the gold ran out.
Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0806181214
When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Author : Bethany Onsgard
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629694436
Have you ever wondered what life was like for miners and their families during the California Gold Rush? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, A Day in the Life section, index, and glossary also included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : John Bidwell
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1966
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317910214
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
Author : Daniel Turner
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781539160366
Join the cowboys, gunslingers, lawmen, gold miners and Native Americans of the Wild West. Begin with Lewis and Clark's exploration of the frontier, witness Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn and enter a Wild West saloon. Simple history, telling the story without information overload.This title is in US English.
Author : Jerry Stanley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : California
ISBN : 9780517709528
From the award-winning author of Children of the Dustbowl comes a sobering look at two of the most frequently romanticized events in American history. For the native peoples of California, the period from 1769, when the first Spanish Mission was founded, to the 1850s, when the Gold Rush was at its height, was one of terrible violence and destruction. First, Spanish priests and soldiers sought to convert the Indians to Christianity and a civilized way of life. Yet for the Indians the story of the missions was one of hunger, disease, rebellion, and death. Then, during the Gold Rush, Indians were frequently kidnapped, murdered, and sold into slavery by white settlers. By the end of the nineteenth century, the surviving California Indians had been forced onto reservations and their way of life had been largely destroyed. With maps, a timeline, and glossaries on California's Indian tribes and mission history, Jerry Stanley tells the story of modern California from the poignant perspective of the Native American.
