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Author: Charles Ross Parke
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and medical observations. Parke returned east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua, continuing to record his experiences. Handsomely produced, but with space-wasting margins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781515323228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."
Author: J. S. Holliday
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-03-16
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0806181214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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: Chauncey L. Canfield
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Author: Sallie Hester
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780736803441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a fourteen-year-old girl who tells her family's journey along the Oregon-California Trail during 1849-1850. Includes activities and a timeline related to the era.
Author: James K 1795-1849 Polk
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015512634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: William Benemann
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The correspondents come from a variety of economic and social backgrounds. Some are barely literate, while others craft prose on par with the finest nineteenth-century travel literature. Their writings address a broad range of concerns, from business prospects and consumer prices to social mores and popular amusements."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Louisa Catherine Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0674369270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLouisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.
Author: Thomas D. Clark
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 081316527X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
Author: J. S. Holliday
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-03-16
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 0806183527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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.
