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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... Mormon Church and a military vet- eran ; he had survived the anti - Mormon pogroms in Missouri and Illinois , and fought Mexicans in the war not quite officially ended Prologue: The Baron and the Carpenter (Coloma: January 1848)
... Mormon Church and a military vet- eran ; he had survived the anti - Mormon pogroms in Missouri and Illinois , and fought Mexicans in the war not quite officially ended Prologue: The Baron and the Carpenter (Coloma: January 1848)
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... Mormons simply insisted they could no longer abide Jennie Wimmer's arbitrary rule . They must be allowed to build their own living quarters , where they would cook their own meals . Marshall was reluctant to grant the demand , for every ...
... Mormons simply insisted they could no longer abide Jennie Wimmer's arbitrary rule . They must be allowed to build their own living quarters , where they would cook their own meals . Marshall was reluctant to grant the demand , for every ...
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... Mormons could supply , and pay them for the journey . Of course , their time , and their lives , would not be their own for the duration of the fighting , but at war's end they would be closer to the Mormons ' new home , wherever that ...
... Mormons could supply , and pay them for the journey . Of course , their time , and their lives , would not be their own for the duration of the fighting , but at war's end they would be closer to the Mormons ' new home , wherever that ...
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... Mormons . Many of the Saints were family men , and couldn't help feel- ing pity for the children who died . But all were veterans of the wilderness , and like many of similar experience after such disasters , they couldn't help thinking ...
... Mormons . Many of the Saints were family men , and couldn't help feel- ing pity for the children who died . But all were veterans of the wilderness , and like many of similar experience after such disasters , they couldn't help thinking ...
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... Mormons discovered an unanticipated perquisite of the Coloma job , or what they initially took to be a perquisite . Referring to Jennie Wimmer , Smith noted , " We have a woman cook , which is some- thing we have not had for a long time ...
... Mormons discovered an unanticipated perquisite of the Coloma job , or what they initially took to be a perquisite . Referring to Jennie Wimmer , Smith noted , " We have a woman cook , which is some- thing we have not had for a long time ...
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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 |
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
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