Author : Julie Ferris
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780753452189
Presents a look at the sites and society that existed in San Francisco during the time of the Gold Rush in the 1850s.
Author : Sylvia Alden Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0595524923
Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520216598
When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.
Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,32 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 : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 37,89 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 : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 35,62 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 : Richard Thomas Stillson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803243251
A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.
Author : Brian Roberts
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807848562
California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture.
Author : Sabrina Crewe
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2002-12-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780836833935
The California Gold Rush.
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 030018218X
DIVThe California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it’s the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in his authoritative new book, The Rush to Gold. He examines the California Gold Rush through the eyes of 30,000 French participants. In so doing, he offers a completely original analysis of an important—but previously neglected—chapter in the history of the Gold Rush, which occurred at a time of sweeping changes in France./divDIV/divDIVRohrbough is the author of Days of Gold, which is generally accepted as the essential text on the subject. This new book comes out of his extended research in French archives. He is the first to provide an international focus to these pivotal events in mid-nineteenth-century America. The Rush to Gold is an important contribution to the fast-growing field of transnational American history./div
