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Author : David Vaught
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0801884977
Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich.--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California, author of California: A History "Agricultural History"
Author : Ralph Mann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804711364
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Robert Dahl
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2005-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1462821642
After the Gold Rush begins in January 1926, when the ship carrying Robert Dahl steams into the harbor in Skagway, Alaska. The ten-year-old boy has been traveling for over a week with his mother and two brothers from the tiny town in northwest Iowa where he was born. As the ship’s crew prepares to dock, the brothers eagerly scan the wharf for a glimpse of their father, who arrived a few weeks earlier to become the town’s only physician. Driven by hopes of finding Yukon gold, thousands had once passed through Skagway. By the time of the Dahl family’s arrival in 1926, the population had shrunk to five hundred. Although some buildings remaining from the Gold Rush days made sections of Skagway look like a ghost town, the young boy from the plains of Iowa was entranced by the wild beauty of the surrounding mountains, which he would explore in the years to come. In this highly personal tale of Robert Dahl ́s years in Skagway, we meet the people of the town—at school, at work, at play, hunting and fishing. We meet town "characters," a few remaining from the Gold Rush days, others whose drifting had ended in Skagway. We meet Tlingit Indians, who were made "outcasts in their own land" by the visible and invisible barriers of small-town life. The author concludes with the hope that "this lovely piece of our world will be preserved as long as human beings, and our fellow creatures who inhabit those splendid mountains, valleys, forests, rivers, streams, and, yes, even the glaciers, continue to live on this earth."
Author : Janice T. Driesbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520214323
"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.
Author : Avi
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536206792
Newbery Medalist Avi brings us mud-caked, tent-filled San Francisco in 1848 with a willful heroine who goes on an unintended — and perilous — adventure to save her brother. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn’t even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until one day, when Father is in the gold fields, her younger brother, Jacob, is kidnapped. And so Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships. Beloved storyteller Avi is at the top of his form as he ushers us back to an extraordinary time of hope and risk, brought to life by a heroine readers will cheer for. Spot-on details and high suspense make this a vivid, absorbing historical adventure.
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101610298
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!
Author : Michael Cannon
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Sequel to the author's 'Old Melbourne Town Before the Gold Rush', this history describes the dynamic effects of the gold discoveries of the 1850s on the development of Melbourne. Discusses a range of aspects associated with the sudden influx of wealth and dramatic increase in population. Includes 110 colour plates taken mainly from contemporary paintings. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author's other publications include the bestselling 'The Land Boomers'.
Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426300400
The author uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848. Full color.
Author : Steve McConnell
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Lively and highly readable introspections on the software development industry appeals to both insiders and non-technical readers alike with candid reflections takes a look at the future of software engineering as a profession. McConnell, a best-selling and award-winning author, describes software development practices and trends, provides valuable insight, and gives the non-technical public an understanding of software engineering.
Author : David Vaught
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801897807
A dramatic history of a group of families in post-gold rush California who turned to agriculture when mining failed. “It is a glorious country,” exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field’s pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something commensurate to their capacity to dream. Most failed to hit pay dirt in gold. Thereafter, one illustrative group of them struggled to make a living in wheat, livestock, and fruit along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley. Like Field, they never forgot that first “glorious” moment in California when anything seemed possible. In After the Gold Rush, David Vaught examines the hard-luck miners-turned-farmers—the Pierces, Greenes, Montgomerys, Careys, and others—who refused to admit a second failure, faced flood and drought, endured monumental disputes and confusion over land policy, and struggled to come to grips with the vagaries of local, national, and world markets. Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich. “An excellent history of farming in the Sacramento Valley in the late nineteenth century.” —California History “Vaught tells a riveting story of two generations of farmers who “committed themselves not only to the market but to community life as well.” He argues that these twin commitments, born of their failures in the gold fields, were an essential part of the culture of American capitalism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century.” —Business History Review “Vaught set himself the goal of writing a “new” rural history of California, examining the state’s wheat farmers in their social and cultural contexts. In After the Gold Rush, he achieves his goal admirably.” —Journal of American History “An agricultural history that weaves together an unpredictable creek, a fluctuating market, and the perseverance of the American Dream.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association