The Danites in the Sierras (in Four Acts)
Author : Joaquin Miller
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Danites (Latter Day Saint churches)
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Author : Joaquin Miller
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Danites (Latter Day Saint churches)
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Author : Joaquin Miller
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Joaquin Miller
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Roger A. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521793209
This book examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions.
Author : Thomas William Herringshaw
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 1914
Category : United States
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Author : Joaquin Miller
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 1882
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 974 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2000-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520224965
The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously illustrated with with black and white and color photographs.
Author : Christopher Corbett
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0802197922
This true story of a concubine and the Gold Rush years “delves deep into the soul of the real old west” (Erik Larson). “Once the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched our ‘national madness,’ the population of California exploded. Tens of thousands of Chinese, lured by tales of a ‘golden mountain,’ took passage across the Pacific. Among this massive influx were many young concubines who were expected to serve in the brothels sprouting up near the goldfields. One of them adopted the name of Polly Bemis, after an Idaho saloonkeeper, Charlie Bemis, won her in a poker game and married her. For decades the couple lived on an isolated, self-sufficient farm near the Salmon River in central Idaho. After her husband’s death, Polly came down to a nearby town and gradually spoke of her experiences. Journalist Christopher Corbett movingly recounts Polly’s story, integrating Polly’s personal history into the broader picture of the history of the mass immigration of Chinese. As both a personal and social history, this is an admirable book.” —Booklist “A gorgeously written and brilliantly researched saga of America during the mad flush of its biggest Gold Rush. Christopher Corbett’s genius is to anchor his larger story of Chinese immigration around a poor concubine named Polly. A tremendous achievement.” —Douglas Brinkley “Uses Bemis’s story as a platform for a larger discussion about the hardships of the Chinese experience in the American West.” —The Washington Post