The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American DreamKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10. dec. 2008 - 592 strani 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. |
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... more brightly on them than on any other portion of humanity ; but he had never met anyone as infuriatingly self - assured as John Frémont . The Amer- ican captain had conquered the mountains to reach California - 4 The Age of Gold.
... more brightly on them than on any other portion of humanity ; but he had never met anyone as infuriatingly self - assured as John Frémont . The Amer- ican captain had conquered the mountains to reach California - 4 The Age of Gold.
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... Frémont had contented himself with registering disdain for Mexican authority , parading about the province as he pleased , leaving only when he saw fit . But he re- turned in December 1845 , and his second coming heralded the war that ...
... Frémont had contented himself with registering disdain for Mexican authority , parading about the province as he pleased , leaving only when he saw fit . But he re- turned in December 1845 , and his second coming heralded the war that ...
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... Along with nearly all the Americans in California , Marshall sided with the land of his birth against the country of his current residence . He enlisted under Captain Frémont and marched south to San Pasqual , then 6 The Age of Gold.
... Along with nearly all the Americans in California , Marshall sided with the land of his birth against the country of his current residence . He enlisted under Captain Frémont and marched south to San Pasqual , then 6 The Age of Gold.
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The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands. Captain Frémont and marched south to San Pasqual , then to San Diego . After a great deal of walking and relatively little fighting , he was mustered out at San Diego in ...
The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands. Captain Frémont and marched south to San Pasqual , then to San Diego . After a great deal of walking and relatively little fighting , he was mustered out at San Diego in ...
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... Frémont was one of the great enigmas of his generation . For ten years during the 1840s and 1850s he was as famous as anyone in America , a celebrity - hero whose star rose like a rocket in the West and flashed bril liantly from coast ...
... Frémont was one of the great enigmas of his generation . For ten years during the 1840s and 1850s he was as famous as anyone in America , a celebrity - hero whose star rose like a rocket in the West and flashed bril liantly from coast ...
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To the Bottom of the World and Back | 93 |
To See the Elephant | 122 |
Where Rivers Die | 162 |
From Vulcans Forge | 191 |
A Millennium in a Day | 226 |
PART FOUR | 359 |
PART FIVE | 439 |
Sources | 493 |
Bibliography | 509 |
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