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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... became so ill they had to be sent to Sutter's Fort to recuperate . Marshall fretted at the delay . He knew the Mormons would depart in the spring , leaving him to finish the sawmill with the Indians . He could probably do so if he had ...
... became so ill they had to be sent to Sutter's Fort to recuperate . Marshall fretted at the delay . He knew the Mormons would depart in the spring , leaving him to finish the sawmill with the Indians . He could probably do so if he had ...
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... became convinced that California - that marvelous land so neglected by its feckless people - should be brought into the Union . He offered to buy California from Mexico . When the Mexican government refused , he in- sisted . When the ...
... became convinced that California - that marvelous land so neglected by its feckless people - should be brought into the Union . He offered to buy California from Mexico . When the Mexican government refused , he in- sisted . When the ...
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... became appar ent shortly . " Only an hour ago we should have perished , shattered against the shores of the Farallones , which rise up just five leagues from the en- trance to the port of San Francisco , " Pérez recorded on February 15 ...
... became appar ent shortly . " Only an hour ago we should have perished , shattered against the shores of the Farallones , which rise up just five leagues from the en- trance to the port of San Francisco , " Pérez recorded on February 15 ...
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... became the father of a feisty girl who inherited his uncompromising spirit . Jessie afterward com- mented on " that instinctive sympathy which made us one " ; in her youth , friends and neighbors commented on how impossible both were ...
... became the father of a feisty girl who inherited his uncompromising spirit . Jessie afterward com- mented on " that instinctive sympathy which made us one " ; in her youth , friends and neighbors commented on how impossible both were ...
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... became her husband's collaborator and ghostwriter . When he returned from the expedition that scouted the Oregon Trail , and sat down to write the report required by Congress , he discovered that all the courage and ambition that had ...
... became her husband's collaborator and ghostwriter . When he returned from the expedition that scouted the Oregon Trail , and sat down to write the report required by Congress , he discovered that all the courage and ambition that had ...
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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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