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Author: James Klein
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935182682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition has all new maps and an added chapter on the Kern River area. Good introduction to the gold bearing areas. Authentic and interesting reading for any gold seeker or history buff. Illustrated.
Author: Garret Romaine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1493018981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGold Panning California is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in California. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in California. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background. Features include: Full-color images GPS coordinates Geology basics Tools of the trade for every level of collector Rules and regulations Polishing, preserving, crafting, and displaying your treasures
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0374707200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Author: Barbara Braasch
Publisher: Johnston Associates International
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781881409144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonard L. Richards
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-02-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307277577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-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.
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.
Author: Charles Beebe Turrill
Publisher:
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley.
Author: Paul D. Morrison
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow available in one volume, the major placer locations of the Sierra Nevada, taken from the original publications of that region. Complete with maps and descriptive text.
Author: James Klein
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781889786056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book reveals the secrets of the best gold-bearing areas in Northern California with maps, photos, illustrations and old tales of those who tried their luck before you. Learn about modern tools, methods and equipment from a veteran prospector and treasure hunter.
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Flash Point
Published: 2011-02-15
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1429990961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen James Marshall found a small, soft shiny stone in a California stream, he knew it could only be one thing: Gold! His cry of discovery would be heard around the world. In the third installment of Don Brown's Actual Times series, Gold! Gold from the American River! is the story of the California gold rush--the uncharted journey across hostile land, the laborious process of panning for gold, the success of savvy entrepreneurs, and the fortunes of the marginalized, from slaves and American Indians to women and foreigners.
