California Gold Rush
Author: Julie Ferris
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780753452189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a look at the sites and society that existed in San Francisco during the time of the Gold Rush in the 1850s.
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Mining for Freedom
Author: Sylvia Alden Roberts
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0595524923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
The California Gold Rush
Author: Mark A. Eifler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-22
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1317910214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
Days of Gold
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-10-15
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0520216598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.
A Timeline History of the California Gold Rush
Author: Stephanie Watson
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1467785806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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"--Provided by publisher.
The World Rushed In
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.
California's Gold Rush Country
Author: Barbara Braasch
Publisher: Johnston Associates International
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781881409144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoaring Camp
Author: Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780393320992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical 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.
Spreading the Word
Author: Richard Thomas Stillson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0803243251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.
American Alchemy
Author: Brian Roberts
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780807848562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalifornia during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture.
