The Gold Rush To Californias 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 : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781598450125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Rush to California's Riches written by David Aretha and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how the discovery of gold and the subsequent influx of people into California brought opportunity and devastation and radically changed America's culture, geography, and view of itself.

Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689808036
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Striking it Rich written by Stephen Krensky and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 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 : 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 : Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803286177
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riches for All written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.

Author : Jennifer Quasha
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0823957055
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush written by Jennifer Quasha and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projects and activities which illustrate the history of the California Gold Rush and pioneer life in that state.

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 : Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806136813
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Saints written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines narrative history and firsthand Mormon accounts that cast light on the presence of Latter-day Saints in California during the Gold Rush in the middle 1840s. Reprint.

Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Cherry Lake
ISBN 13 : 1631377051
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the factual details of the California Gold Rush. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a builder working on Sutter's Mill when gold was discovered, a '49er who left New York for California, and a prospector from Chile who came by ship to California to find riches. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.