Author : Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520261445
Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.
Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393320992
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.
Author : Josh Gregory
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1546169563
Learn how prospectors mined for gold, what life was like in mining camps, and much more. In 1848, gold was discovered in a California river, kicking off a period of time when thousands of people traveled to the West Coast with dreams of getting rich. Readers (Ages 7-9) will get an up-close look at life during the California Gold Rush as they follow the adventures of Louise and Feng, two kids living in a mining camp near San Francisco.
Author : Gudde/Gudde
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780520352469
Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.
Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : California
ISBN : 9780887141119
Experience the adventure, romance, and history of people who struggled to realize their share of the American dream of finding gold in California. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and entertaining history.
Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812542882
The discovery of gold in the Sierras triggered the greatest migration in United States history, the gold rush of 1849. In this sweeping story of the rush to California by land and by sea, four young people discover what gold fever can do to a person's beliefs and values. But in the process, they find that there is one thing more important than gold: love.
Author : Elliot H. Koeppel
Publisher : Gem Guides Book Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : California
ISBN : 9780938121121
The saga of the early prospectors and all the others who made their mark during the Gold Rush. This historical visitor's guide includes recommended routes along Highway 49, dubbed the Mother Lode Highway, and many historical and full-color photos.
Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0307277577
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 030018140X
The California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 gold seekers in the mid-1800s, and it is the story of 30,000 Frenchman who came by sea that is told in The Rush to Gold. This is the first book to give an international focus to this pivotal time.
Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher :
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520025721
Identifies, locates, and describes hundreds of productive and historically interesting California sites where gold was found, washed, and mined in the two decades following the 1848 Sutter's Mill discovery
