The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American DreamDoubleday, 2002 - 547 strani By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN THEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH. When gold was first discovered on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was sparsely populated frontier territory not yet ceded to the United States from Mexixo. The discovery triggered a massive influx as hundreds of thousands of people scrambled to California in search of riches, braving dangerous journeys across the Pacific, around Cape Horn, and through the Isthmus of Panama, as well as across America's vast, unsettled wilderness. Cities sprang up overnight, in response to the demand for supplies and services of all kinds. By 1850, California had become a state -- the fastest journey to statehood in U.S. history. It had also become a symbol of what America stood for and of where it was going. In "The Age of Gold," H. W. Brands explores the far-reaching implications of this pivotal point in U.S. history, weaving the politics of the times with the gripping stories of individuals that displays both the best and the worse of the American character. He discusses the national issues that exploded around the ratification of California's statehood, hastening the clouds that would lead to the Civil War. He tells the stories of the great fortunes made by such memorable figures as John and Jessie Fremont, Leland Stanford and George Hearst -- and of great fortunes lost by hundreds now forgotten by history. And he reveals the profound effect of the Gold Rush on the way Americans viewed their destinies, as the Puritan ethic of hardwork and the gradual accumulation of worldly riches gave way to the notion of getting rich quickly. |
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... Archy to San Francisco to meet a man traveling back to Mississippi , who would escort Archy home . But Archy didn't want to go home . Not surprisingly , he at first was even less aware than Stovall of the status of slavery under ...
... Archy to San Francisco to meet a man traveling back to Mississippi , who would escort Archy home . But Archy didn't want to go home . Not surprisingly , he at first was even less aware than Stovall of the status of slavery under ...
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... Archy had not fled bondage in Mississippi ( although he may have fled trouble there , with the man he had wounded ; this was where the ques- tion of his motive for leaving arose . One version of the story had Archy's Sacramento jailer ...
... Archy had not fled bondage in Mississippi ( although he may have fled trouble there , with the man he had wounded ; this was where the ques- tion of his motive for leaving arose . One version of the story had Archy's Sacramento jailer ...
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... Archy had yet another new lawyer ( doubt- less their insistence on pay contributed to the turnover among Archy's at- torneys ) . James Hardy continued to represent Stovall . The kidnapping charge against Stovall was tossed out on a ...
... Archy had yet another new lawyer ( doubt- less their insistence on pay contributed to the turnover among Archy's at- torneys ) . James Hardy continued to represent Stovall . The kidnapping charge against Stovall was tossed out on a ...
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