Books Relating to California, Oregon, the West Coast and Hawaii
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Books
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Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Books
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Author : Silas Weston
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1854
Category : History
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Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0374707200
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Author : Mary Hallock Foote
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1878
Category : California
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Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1875
Category : America
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Author : Charles Wesley Chesterman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781017036657
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mary Hallock Foote
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1970
Category : California
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Author : Silas Weston
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781020211904
This memoir chronicles the experiences of Silas Weston, a prospector who spent four months in the California gold fields during the early days of the gold rush in the late 1840s. It provides a vivid and detailed portrait of life in the mining camps, including the hardships and dangers faced by miners and the economic and social dynamics of the mining communities. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Charles Frémont
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1849
Category : California
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Author : John Charles Frémont
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1851
Category : California
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