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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... JOHN SUTTER , MARSHALL'S PARTNER , felt much the same way about Marshall that Marshall felt about Jennie Wimmer . In Sutter's homeland of Switzerland , where tapping the power of falling water was an ancient art , Marshall never would ...
... JOHN SUTTER , MARSHALL'S PARTNER , felt much the same way about Marshall that Marshall felt about Jennie Wimmer . In Sutter's homeland of Switzerland , where tapping the power of falling water was an ancient art , Marshall never would ...
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The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands. Sutter's ... Sutter didn't need he would raft down the Sacramento to the village of Yerba ... John Frémont . The Amer- ican captain had conquered the mountains to reach ...
The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands. Sutter's ... Sutter didn't need he would raft down the Sacramento to the village of Yerba ... John Frémont . The Amer- ican captain had conquered the mountains to reach ...
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... John Sutter could hide there from his wife and creditors ; James Marshall could hope to shake the failure that had dogged his steps since Missouri . At a time when long - distance travel averaged little faster than a man could walk ...
... John Sutter could hide there from his wife and creditors ; James Marshall could hope to shake the failure that had dogged his steps since Missouri . At a time when long - distance travel averaged little faster than a man could walk ...
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... John Sutter and other Mexican officials nervous . The commandant of Cal- ifornia , José Castro , ordered Frémont to leave the province . He obliged , but slowly and with a studied insolence intended to elicit a violent re- sponse . He ...
... John Sutter and other Mexican officials nervous . The commandant of Cal- ifornia , José Castro , ordered Frémont to leave the province . He obliged , but slowly and with a studied insolence intended to elicit a violent re- sponse . He ...
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... John Sutter apparently thought differently . The two visitors carried a letter from Sutter requesting preemption rights to the quarter - section of land on which the Coloma sawmill and millrace were located . Mason in- structed Sherman ...
... John Sutter apparently thought differently . The two visitors carried a letter from Sutter requesting preemption rights to the quarter - section of land on which the Coloma sawmill and millrace were located . Mason in- structed Sherman ...
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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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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
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