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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Stran 2
... build their own living quarters , where they would cook their own meals . Marshall was reluctant to grant the demand , for every hour devoted to building the new cabin would be an hour stolen from building the sawmill , which was the ...
... build their own living quarters , where they would cook their own meals . Marshall was reluctant to grant the demand , for every hour devoted to building the new cabin would be an hour stolen from building the sawmill , which was the ...
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... build it himself . New Hel- vetia was thriving a decade after Sutter had persuaded the governor of Cal- ifornia to award him a tract of land on the northern frontier of that Mexican province as a way of forestalling settlement by ...
... build it himself . New Hel- vetia was thriving a decade after Sutter had persuaded the governor of Cal- ifornia to award him a tract of land on the northern frontier of that Mexican province as a way of forestalling settlement by ...
Stran 10
... build the new colony . So the Mormon Council of Twelve issued its own call for volunteers on Washington's behalf , and the Mormon Battalion was born . Like Marshall's , the Mormons ' war included far more marching - in their case ...
... build the new colony . So the Mormon Council of Twelve issued its own call for volunteers on Washington's behalf , and the Mormon Battalion was born . Like Marshall's , the Mormons ' war included far more marching - in their case ...
Stran 15
... build their separate quar- ters . Meanwhile he examined what the crew had accomplished in his ab- sence . The headrace - the portion of the race above the mill - met his approval , but the tailrace below the mill - was too shallow and ...
... build their separate quar- ters . Meanwhile he examined what the crew had accomplished in his ab- sence . The headrace - the portion of the race above the mill - met his approval , but the tailrace below the mill - was too shallow and ...
Stran 17
... build a sawmill . If they didn't work on the mill , they wouldn't get paid . Perhaps he did not remind them - although they doubtless realized that he wouldn't start getting paid until the mill started sawing wood . Yet , bowing to ...
... build a sawmill . If they didn't work on the mill , they wouldn't get paid . Perhaps he did not remind them - although they doubtless realized that he wouldn't start getting paid until the mill started sawing wood . Yet , bowing to ...
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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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