Music of the Gold Rush Era
Author: History of Music Project
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
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Art of the Gold Rush
Author: Janice T. Driesbach
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-04
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 0520214323
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Art of the Gold Rush" features drawings and oil paintings of images of the scenery, people, and activity surrounding the 80,000 travelers to California in search of golden nuggets.
The Songs of the Gold Rush
Author: David Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighty-eight songs as they were written and sung in the mining camps of California.
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.
The Gold Rush of 1849
Author: Arthur Blake
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781562944834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the California gold rush and its effect on the character of the United States.
Songs of the Great American West
Author: Irwin Silber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0486287041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents ninety-two songs of the American West, each with lyrics, a vocal score, simple piano arrangements, and chord symbols, and includes historical notes and commentaries, and over one hundred period illustrations.
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."
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Author: John Avery Lomax
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 450
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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.
