|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There is no greater illustration of corporate America's moral decay than Amazon. Amazon fired manager protesting Covid-19 infections in warehous.e
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by H. W. Brands
Texas A&M University professor H.W. Brands enhances his reputation as one of America's great popular historians with The Age of Gold, which tells the story of the California gold rush through rollicking narrative and intelligent analysis. "James Marshall's discovery of gold at Coloma [in 1848] turned out to be a seminal event in history, one of those rare moments that divide human existence into before and after," he writes. It launched "the most astonishing mass movement of people since the Crusades" and "helped initiate the modern era of American economic development." Brands describes how thousands of people from all over the world hazarded the journey, faced the scientific challenge of extracting precious metal from the earth, and finally struggled "to sink roots" where so many came merely "to strip the land." This book is something of a departure for Brands, who most recently has written biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt (both of them excellent). Yet he tackles this new topic with confidence, telling dozens of stories about John Fremont, Leland Stanford, and less famous forty-niners. He concludes by describing why these tales have a national and even global importance. The Age of Gold is magnificent in its sweep, and not to be missed by fans of American history. --John Miller - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 560 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.39 x 9.58 x 6.51
Publisher: Doubleday; ; (August 20, )
ISBN: 0385502168Art of the Gold Rush
by Janice Tolhurst Driesbach, et al
(Paperback)Bear Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846
by Dale L. Walker
(Paperback)Blacks in Gold Rush California
by Rudolph M. LappCalifornia 1850: A Snapshot in Time
by Janice Marschner
(Paperback)California Gold Country (The Traveler's Guide To)
by Stuart A. KallenThe California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited
by Elliot H. KoeppelThe California Gold Rush (Cornerstones of Freedom)
by R. Conrad SteinThe California Gold Rush (Let Freedom Ring/Exploring the West)
by Judy MonroeCalifornia Gold Rush (Scholastic History Readers)
by Peter RoopCalifornia Gold Rush: Search for Treasure
by Catherine E. ChambersCalifornia's Gold Rush Country: A Guide to the Best of the Mother Lode
by Barbara BraaschThe Complete Gold Country Guidebook: Discovering California's Gold Rush Region
by Indian Chief Pub HouseCovered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1852: The California Trail
by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor), Glenda Riley (Introduction)
(Paperback)The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47
by Frank Mullen
(Paperback)Durham's Place Names of California's Gold Country
by David L. DurhamEarly Mining Days - California Gold Country: The Story Behind the Scenery
by Stanley W. PaherGhost Towns and Mining Camps of California: A History & Guide
by Remi A. NadeauGhost Towns of Northern California: Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining Camps
(Hardcover)
by Philip VarneyGhost Towns of Northern California: Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining Camps
(Paperback)
by Philip VarneyGold: The California Story
by Mary Hill
(Hardcover)Gold: The California Story
by Mary HillGold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush
by Rosalyn SchanzerGold Rivers of Northern California
by Marjorie B. GilesThe Gold Rush
by Bobbie KalmanThe Gold Rush: A Primary Source History of the Quest for California's Gold (Primary Sources in American History)
by Kerri O'DonnellGold Rush: Hands-On Projects about Mining the Riches of California
by Powerkids Pr.A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California
by James J. Rawls
Publisher: University of California Press;A Good Camp: Mines of Julien and the Cuyamacas
by Leland Fetzer
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications; (November )A Guide to the California Gold Rush
by Eugene R. HartThe History of the Gold Discoveries in the Northern Mines of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt As Told By The Newspapers and Miners 1848-1875
by Lewis J. Swindle
Book Description: This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1875, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Northern Mines area of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt. The Northern Mines was that area north of the Cosumnes River, which included Placerville on northward. It included the region containing the South, Middle and North forks of the American River, the Bear River, the South, Middle and North forks of the Yuba River, and the South, Middle and North forks of the Feather River, plus all the other branches and tributaries that ran into the named forks and rivers.This book contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, this reveals just when the "New Diggings" as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggings they were; the names of some of the prospectors who found some of the diggings or who were at the diggings and what they were taking out. There are tales of how some of the diggings were found and why some of them received the names they did. The overall purpose of this book is to give a full picture of exactly what was happening to as 'many' different named diggings, locations, camps, and towns that came up in the Northern Mines area, and to give an account of events over at least a certain length of time, exactly as it was reported.
To determine from just where each newspaper article within this book comes from, each of the newspaper articles used has first, the date on which it appeared in the newspaper, followed in parentheses by the name of the newspaper from which that particular article was obtained from.
Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Trafford Publishing; (November 22, )
ISBN: 155212472XJewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849-1880
by Ava Fran KahnLooking for Gold: The Modern Prospector's Handbook
by Bradford Angier
Listed under GoldMaps of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade
by Carl I. WheatRiches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World
by Kenneth N. OwensRoaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
by Susan Lee Johnson
(Hardcover)Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series)
by Kevin Starr (Editor), et al
(Paperback)Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
by J. S. Holliday
Publisher: University of California Press;Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years Residence in Upper and Lower California 1847-48-49
by E. Gould BuffumThe Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Publisher: Heyday Books; Reprint edition (March )A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850
by William Benemann (Editor)
(Hardcover)
Out of Print - Try Used BooksThe World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
by J. S. Holliday
Search This Site
California Gold Rush on DVD
