The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Author: Leonard L. Richards

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-02-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0307277577

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Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.

California's Prodigal Sons
California's Prodigal Sons

Author: Spencer C. Olin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0520333012

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

American Exodus
American Exodus

Author: James Noble Gregory

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780195071368

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Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.

The California Indians
The California Indians

Author: Robert F. Heizer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 0520340493

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This new, expanded edition of The California Indians is a more comprehensive and thus more useful book than its predecessor, which first appeared in 1951 and was reprinted seven times. The editors have combined the selections, eighteen of which are new, into a general survey of California Indian native cultures. They have avoided highly technical studies because they intend their book for the general reading public rather than for scholars. The editors discuss the present-day Indians of California in a chapter written especially for this volume, and provide a new, extensive classified bibliography listing hundreds of published works arranged by culture areas and subjects. This list of references should prove useful to the nonprofessional who wishes to read further on a particular tribal culture or topic, such as Indian basketry or place-names or prehistoric rock art.

The California Indians
The California Indians

Author: Robert Fleming Heizer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9780520020313

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A comprehensive survey of California Indian native cultures, discussing their origins, traditions, beliefs, daily life, struggles, and culture.