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"At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."—James N. Gregory, author of American Exodus
Author : Marilynn S. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1996-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0520207017
"At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."—James N. Gregory, author of American Exodus
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,93 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 : Milton Silverman
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 12,85 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 : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 26,11 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 : Donald Fleming Parrott
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : Dorothea Lange (Fotografin.)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Donna Jean Murch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807833762
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African
Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317910222
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 : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1631377051
This book relays the factual details of the California Gold Rush. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a builder working on Sutter's Mill when gold was discovered, a '49er who left New York for California, and a prospector from Chile who came by ship to California to find riches. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.