California Gold Camps

Author : Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261445
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Gold Camps written by Erwin G. Gudde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.

Author : Gudde/Gudde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520352469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Gold Camps written by Gudde/Gudde and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320992
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.

Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520025721
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Gold Camps written by Erwin Gustav Gudde and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies, locates, and describes hundreds of productive and historically interesting California sites where gold was found, washed, and mined in the two decades following the 1848 Sutter's Mill discovery

Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486258149
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story of the California Gold Rush Coloring Book written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty scenes: Sutter's Mill, mining camps and boomtowns, prospectors panning for gold, old San Francisco, more. Informative captions.

Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520216598
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days of Gold written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.

Author : Carmel Barry-Schweyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738529509
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining Camps of Placer County written by Carmel Barry-Schweyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name--the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel--to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of "Gold on the American River!" in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims "panned out," thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley. Some camps disappeared along with the easy placer gold; others found new methods to extract gold deposited deep in quartz veins or underground and developed into stable towns that still stand. Sometimes washing whole hillsides into rivers, hydraulic mining was outlawed in the 1880s, but the colorful characters and tall tales of the Gold Rush live on.

Author : Sabrina Crewe
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836833935
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Sabrina Crewe and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Gold Rush.

Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887141119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Mining Days written by Stanley W. Paher and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the adventure, romance, and history of people who struggled to realize their share of the American dream of finding gold in California. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and entertaining history.

Author : Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248112
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We the Miners written by Andrea G. McDowell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.