Gold Trails of the West Coast
Author : Tony Nolan
Publisher : Raupo
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Tony Nolan
Publisher : Raupo
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Tony Nolan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN :
A traveller's guide to the old goldfields of the West Coast of the South Island.
Author : Tony Nolan
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : 9780589013820
Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226519627
Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Gold Trail, Meldahl uses the diaries and letters of the 1849 settlers to reveal how geology and topography directly affected our nations westward expansion.
Author : Glenn S. Dumke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873282222
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Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226923290
The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal
Author : Kimball Webster
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1917
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Frank Tortorich
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Carson River Valley (Nev.)
ISBN : 9780966290714
This is a companion to Gold Rush Trail by Frank Tortorich. It is a hiking Giude to 16 miles of the historic Carson River Route of the Emigrant Trail over the Sirerra Nevada in California.
Author : Holly L. Skinner
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555663124
From California to the Klondike, prospector Holly Skinner follows a trail of gold across the nineteenth -century American West. Living in a ghost town on Wyoming's South Pass, she steps back into a world where gold ruled the passions of those who pursued it and changed the shape of the nation that found it. In a style reminiscent of John McPhee, Skinner weaves the story of her own solitudinous search for the precious metal into her accounts of the gold rushes that so dramatically accelerated the westward movement.
Author : Arthur King Peters
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780789206787
Major routes that linked the country to the Far West are explored by Peters, including the trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, the Santa Fe Trail, and others. Illustrations.