California Gold Story Of The Rush To Riches

Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214021
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520214019
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Phyllis Zauner
Publisher : Gem Guides Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Gold, Story of the Rush to Riches written by Phyllis Zauner and published by Gem Guides Book Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold miners, cowboys, legendary men and spirited, adventurous women tamed the western frontier and left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Learn their stories and revisit the time and places they knew in this entertaining and easy-to-read series of books that brings the colorful history of the West alive with historical photos and original illustrations.

Author : Tod Olson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426303159
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Get Rich in the California Gold Rush written by Tod Olson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurer shares his experience looking for gold during the California Gold Rush.

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 : Stephen Krensky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780780763388
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Striking It Rich: The Story of the California Gold Rush written by Stephen Krensky and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.

Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806181214
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812542882
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sierra written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of gold in the Sierras triggered the greatest migration in United States history, the gold rush of 1849. In this sweeping story of the rush to California by land and by sea, four young people discover what gold fever can do to a person's beliefs and values. But in the process, they find that there is one thing more important than gold: love.

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481220
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Gold written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.

Author : Stephanie Watson
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1467785806
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Timeline History of the California Gold Rush written by Stephanie Watson and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California gold rush lasted only seven years, but it affected people around the world. Track the important events and turning points that made the discovery of gold a pivotal part of the westward expansion of the United States.