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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... Panama CARIBBEAN SEA Chage City Callao Valparaiso Santiago SOUTH BRAZIL AMERICA of Magellan Tierra del Juego Cape Horn · S . Shetland's ANTARCTICA Equator Rio de Janeiro Eng Chang Le Havre BALTIC E R BLACK SEAR RRANEAN SEA AFRIC Cape of ...
... Panama CARIBBEAN SEA Chage City Callao Valparaiso Santiago SOUTH BRAZIL AMERICA of Magellan Tierra del Juego Cape Horn · S . Shetland's ANTARCTICA Equator Rio de Janeiro Eng Chang Le Havre BALTIC E R BLACK SEAR RRANEAN SEA AFRIC Cape of ...
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... Panama , which he crossed by mule . A third craft car ried him to Jamaica , and a fourth to New Orleans . From there he telegraphed ahead to Washington , saying he had arrived and was bearing an important message . But he didn't reach ...
... Panama , which he crossed by mule . A third craft car ried him to Jamaica , and a fourth to New Orleans . From there he telegraphed ahead to Washington , saying he had arrived and was bearing an important message . But he didn't reach ...
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... Panama , cross the isthmus by riverboat and mule , and take a second ship up the coast to Monterey , where they would meet John . Because the overland expedition would require longer than the Cen- tral American journey , and because ...
... Panama , cross the isthmus by riverboat and mule , and take a second ship up the coast to Monterey , where they would meet John . Because the overland expedition would require longer than the Cen- tral American journey , and because ...
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... Panama and Panama to San Francisco legs together , ran from $ 200 to $ 500 depending on the class of one's shipboard accommodations . And this was just the start . Under the crush of the gold - hunters , traversing the isthmus became a ...
... Panama and Panama to San Francisco legs together , ran from $ 200 to $ 500 depending on the class of one's shipboard accommodations . And this was just the start . Under the crush of the gold - hunters , traversing the isthmus became a ...
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... Panama , were marginally better . A storm laid Richard Jacob low , ren- dering him more a queasy burden than a source of strength . Jessie's double cabin , the best on board , soon seemed almost homey . Indeed , so comfort- able did it ...
... Panama , were marginally better . A storm laid Richard Jacob low , ren- dering him more a queasy burden than a source of strength . Jessie's double cabin , the best on board , soon seemed almost homey . Indeed , so comfort- able did it ...
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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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