Author : Tod Olson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426303159
An adventurer shares his experience looking for gold during the California Gold Rush.
Author : Tod Olson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338207377
A nail-biting tale of survival and brotherhood atop one of the world's most dangerous mountains. This fast-paced, three-part narrative takes readers on three expeditions over 15 years to K2, one of the deadliest mountains on Earth. Roped together, these teams of men face perilously high altitudes and battering storms in hopes of reaching the summit. As each expedition sets out, they carve new paths along icy slopes and unforgiving rock, creating camps on ledges so narrow they fear turning over in their sleep. But disaster strikes -- in 1939, four men never make it down the mountain. Fourteen years later, a man develops blood clots in his legs at 25,000 feet, leaving his team with no safe path off the mountain. Filled with displays of incredible strength and heart-stopping danger, Into the Clouds tells the incredible stories of the men whose quest to conquer a mountain became a battle to survive the descent.
Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : California
ISBN : 9780689808036
Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.
Author : Mel Friedman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338856626
A True Book: Westward Expansion takes readers on an amazing journey to a fascinating time in U.S. history when the country was experiencing dynamic change and expanding westward. This book provides the keys to discovering the important people, places and events that helped shape the western United States. An age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study is included.
Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : 0520214021
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515742547
"2 story paths, 54 choices, 14 endings"--Cover.
Author : Josh Gregory
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 29,98 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 : Dr John Woodland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2014-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1472442814
Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ‘gold bubble’. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Janice T. Driesbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520214323
"Art of the Gold Rush" features drawings and oil paintings of images of the scenery, people, and activity surrounding the 80,000 travelers to California in search of golden nuggets.
Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1504024486
A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter’s Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall’s find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, three hundred thousand prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth, but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes readers back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen’s enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.
