Author : Tod Olson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,42 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 : 41,26 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 : 11,59 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 : 25,9 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 : Dr John Woodland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 35,43 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 : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,61 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.
Author : Jessica Rusick
Publisher : Capstone Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1496690516
After gold was discovered in California in 1848, thousands of people rushed there to strike it rich. They faced tough choices at every turn. Now the choices are yours. Would you rather use the slower method of panning for gold or use a more dangerous method of hydraulic mining? Would you rather run a store or a hotel in a California boomtown? It's your turn to pick this or that!
Author : Cindy Barden
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1580371795
Bring history to life for students in grades 4Ð7 with The California Gold Rush! This 64-page book provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies topics. Activities include word searches, fact-or-opinion questions, and creative writing. The book includes answer keys, time lines, and suggested reading lists.
Author : Beatrice Harris
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1538266369
The California Gold Rush, which began after the discovery of gold in 1848, was about much more than people trying to strike it rich. It was a total reshaping of the United States because of thousands making the arduous trek to the West Coast by land and sea. Some even came from Asia and Europe. In this noteworthy book, this important episode in American history is told through text crafted for the struggling reader. Interesting fact boxes and carefully selected images and photographs are especially motivating.
Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 32,12 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.
