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Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : 0520214021
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520214019
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Author : Paul Robert Walker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0753465841
This book covers the entire period of the boom-and-bust of one of the greatest expansion periods in U.S. history--from the dangers of the journey to the rough and tumble of the mining settlements. Full color.
Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0806181214
When 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.
Author : Joseph N. Pelton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319392735
This book captures the most exciting advances in the harnessing of space as a global resource. The authors track the growing number of space businesses and opportunities for investors, and the many possible benefits of spaceplanes, space stations and even space colonies. The authors also discuss the need for more regulatory reform. Companies like Planetary Resources are now forming to find mineral-rich asteroids and bring back new riches to Earth. Solar power satellites in the next few years will start to beam clean energy back to Earth, to meet the growing demands of a still-developing world. Innovative space industries are vital to the survival of modern human life, and the authors demonstrate what can be done to encourage the growing of the "New Space" frontier. From lassoing and then mining asteroids to developing new methods of defending the planet from space hazards and setting up new hotels and adventures for tourists in space, this new industry will have profound effects on Earth, especially on its economy. This book is based on a study of international experts commissioned ahead of the UNISPACE+50 meeting, having distilled the results of this comprehensive fact-finding process into a compact and very readable form. It can serve as an excellent starting point for understanding all the activities underway or planned to make space truly our next frontier.
Author : Tod Olson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426303159
An adventurer shares his experience looking for gold during the California Gold Rush.
Author : Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806136813
Combines narrative history and firsthand Mormon accounts that cast light on the presence of Latter-day Saints in California during the Gold Rush in the middle 1840s. Reprint.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0307481220
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.
Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1631377051
This book relays the factual details of the California Gold Rush. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a builder working on Sutter's Mill when gold was discovered, a '49er who left New York for California, and a prospector from Chile who came by ship to California to find riches. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.
Author : Gordon Ell
Publisher : Oratia Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780947506704
The discovery of gold in New Zealand in the 1800s led thousands of people to rush to overnight tent towns set among isolated mountains and rivers. In the north, vast forests of giant kauri trees cloaked the land. Yet now only a tiny fraction of the trees survive in threatened forests, and many goldmining settlements are just ghost towns. Rush to Riches tells the story of how mining for gold and felling the kauri forests helped found New Zealand, with both Māori and new immigrants involved in these new industries. The tales in this book reveal how exploiting these resources changed the face of the land and its people.-back cover.