Gold Rushes And Mining Camps Of The Early American West

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870040436
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold rushes and mining camps of the early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theresa Morlock
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN 13 : 1680487671
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Rush written by Theresa Morlock and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative guide, readers will examine the many aspects of the California Gold Rush and the event's larger role in westward expansion. Studying the forty-niners, the Native Americans of California, gold extraction techniques, and transportation west, readers will gain insight into how the gold rush changed the region and the many developments it led to. Accessible language clarifies advanced concepts, and engrossing sidebars feature additional information. Stunning photographs add dimension to the text, and primary sources are integrated, offering an up-close examination. This book's comprehensive material is a terrific resource to supplement curricular studies.

Author : Julie Jeffrey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080901601X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Women written by Julie Jeffrey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. FRONTIER WOMEN is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to the development of the American frontier. Author Julie Roy Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the perspectives of African American and Native American women.

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.

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ISBN 13 : 0520294556
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Beth Sagstetter
Publisher : Benchmark Publishing (Company)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mining Camps Speak written by Beth Sagstetter and published by Benchmark Publishing (Company). This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.

Author : Jeff Savage
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766040208
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rugged Gold Miners written by Jeff Savage and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines gold miners, including the discovery of gold in the United States, the California Gold Rush, the daily lives of miners and prospectors, and how the rush for gold changed the landscape of America"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Chalkley J. Hambleton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gold Hunter's Experience written by Chalkley J. Hambleton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an enthralling memoir by Chalkley J. Hambleton, chronicling his quest for gold in Colorado during the mid-19th century. Unlike many others, Hambleton invested in mining equipment and joined a group of fellow gold hunters, making his journey westward an intriguing tale of determination and perseverance. He vividly describes the harsh reality of crossing the Oregon Trail and encountering the Sioux and Pawnee, but also the breathtaking beauty of the land. Hambleton's observations about the mining process, miner communities, and his own personal experiences make for a fascinating read that dispels misconceptions about the gold rush era.

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.