Gold Rush Stories

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101610298
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Was the Gold Rush? written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!

Author : Frank Baumgarder
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480886777
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Dreams written by Frank Baumgarder and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gold was found in Northern California, news of it spread like a wildfire during the spring and summer of 1848. At first, most people thought the reports were too good to be true, but as weeks and months flew by, they heard about more people striking it rich – and imaginations started to run wild. Tens of thousands of people started to dream about gold, and some of them left everything they knew to make the journey to California. It didn’t matter if you were black, white or brown – anyone could go. Even people in Central and South America, Australia, China, and Western Europe heard about the gold and made the journey. By 1855, hundreds of thousands of people had converged on California. In this study, the author shares diary entries from gold seekers, painting a detailed portrait of the frenzy that overtook the world, the lives of the miners, and how the move West changed the fabric of a nation. Without the dreams, hard work, and dedication of the miners who moved West, the United States of America would not be what it is today.

Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597143855
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics—perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as “slickens”) produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierra, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush. “Seamlessly fuses academic rigor, original reporting and emotional intensity into one meditation on an era.... If the task of the historian is to be faithful to lost truths, then Noy's latest exploration succeeds on every level, and does so in a way that will keep readers wanting to dig deeper into the past.”—Scott Thomas Anderson, Sierra Lodestar “An original and lively look at all the usual suspects, plus bears, weather, women, Joaquín, disappointment and dissipation…. Exhaustively researched and highly entertaining.”—JoAnn Levy, author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024486
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold! written by Fred Rosen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter’s Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall’s find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, three hundred thousand prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth, but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes readers back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen’s enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.

Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Enslow Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781464504716
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by Enslow Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read about when gold was discovered in California, and how this triggered one of the most amazing migrations in history"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1464604711
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, gold was discovered in California. This exciting news spread eastward. People from all walks of life with dreams of enormous riches packed up their belongings and left their comfortable homes behind in search of the hidden treasure. Author Linda Jacobs Altman describes the development of this rugged world of the mining towns, which sparked the development of California. Altman also highlights the stories of prospectors, bandits and thrill seekers who make up the legend and the myth of the time.

Author : Brianna Hall
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1491401842
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strike It Rich! written by Brianna Hall and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the California Gold Rush by examining the causes leading up to it and the immediate and lasting effects it had on the people and places involved"--

Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426300400
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Fever! written by Rosalyn Schanzer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848. Full color.

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Publisher : Stevens & Shea Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780895503312
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Stories written by and published by Stevens & Shea Pub. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five mini-plays of episodes in the California gold rush.

Author : Lewis Buzbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Gold Rush written by Lewis Buzbee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers can match Lewis Buzbee at capturing the American family disrupted by challenges from the outside world, or from within. These are powerful, moving stories of such families. Even when life conspires to tear them apart, Buzbee's families cope, they figure out what comes next. Though not connected in any narrative sense, the stories share a common thread: how to live after the disaster, after the gold rush is over and the gold has run out. Still, Buzbee's characters dream big and love deep, and each story in the collection is raw at the core, wholly memorable, and dedicated to the courage of loving. Anchoring this collection is the novella An American Son, destined to become a classic. Here is a story filled with pathos and humor about a 17-year-old high school junior who, to the amazement and utter consternation of his parents, defects for a time to the Soviet Union and becomes a writer, returning eventually to the Best Westerns of America. It is a vehicle that provides Buzbee with a new leverage on contemporary culture, and a hip take on the writer's life. Lewis Buzbee is a third-generation Californian, and has been writing since age 12. After earning his MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, he published his first collection of short stories, Fliegelman's Desire, from Ballentine Books. A former bookseller and rep for Chronicle, his book on reading and the publishing business, The Yellow Lighted Bookshop, is to be released simultaneously from Graywolf.