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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... Pacific Connection (California and the Union: 1856-1869) The Pathfinder's Return South by West From Sea to Shining Sea Hill' llll The NU'V DUI'FIJO (America in il'll' A80 Of Gold) Prometheus Unbound American Dreamers Sources 49 3 ...
... Pacific Connection (California and the Union: 1856-1869) The Pathfinder's Return South by West From Sea to Shining Sea Hill' llll The NU'V DUI'FIJO (America in il'll' A80 Of Gold) Prometheus Unbound American Dreamers Sources 49 3 ...
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... PACIFIC OCEAN SOLOMON IS . Honolulu PHAWAIIAN 15 INDIAN COCEAN CORAL SEA FIJI IS . Tahiti AUSTRALIA Sydney Melbourne , JASMAN SEA ZEALAND Tasmania Salt Take San Francisca Equator Pitcairn Island SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN The World- miles ...
... PACIFIC OCEAN SOLOMON IS . Honolulu PHAWAIIAN 15 INDIAN COCEAN CORAL SEA FIJI IS . Tahiti AUSTRALIA Sydney Melbourne , JASMAN SEA ZEALAND Tasmania Salt Take San Francisca Equator Pitcairn Island SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN The World- miles ...
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... Pacific storm . " Sunday it began raining , and rained all day and night , and has rained off and on ever since , " Smith wrote on Tuesday , January 11 . The rains did more than disrupt transport ; they threatened the con- struction of ...
... Pacific storm . " Sunday it began raining , and rained all day and night , and has rained off and on ever since , " Smith wrote on Tuesday , January 11 . The rains did more than disrupt transport ; they threatened the con- struction of ...
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... reports he published on the vast region that stretched from the Great Plains to the Pacific . Yet though the whole country knew Frémont , almost no one knew him well . His origins were shrouded in mystery and 32 The Age of Gold.
... reports he published on the vast region that stretched from the Great Plains to the Pacific . Yet though the whole country knew Frémont , almost no one knew him well . His origins were shrouded in mystery and 32 The Age of Gold.
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... Monterey at the end of August , in the keeping of a special courier , a Lieutenant Loeser , whose orders were to get to Washington as quickly as possible . 2 Across the Pacific But travel was slow . Lieutenant 46 The Age of Gold.
... Monterey at the end of August , in the keeping of a special courier , a Lieutenant Loeser , whose orders were to get to Washington as quickly as possible . 2 Across the Pacific But travel was slow . Lieutenant 46 The Age of Gold.
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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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