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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... claim to the region . Subsequently Russian ship captains , seeking provisions for their country's Bering Sea fur hunters , began appearing in the neighborhood north of San Francisco Bay . The English and Russians eventually awoke the ...
... claim to the region . Subsequently Russian ship captains , seeking provisions for their country's Bering Sea fur hunters , began appearing in the neighborhood north of San Francisco Bay . The English and Russians eventually awoke the ...
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... claim and sent troops to suppress the rebellion . The Texans lost at the Alamo , but won at San Jacinto and forced the Mexicans to withdraw . Even so , Mexico refused to make peace or recognize the independence of the Texas republic ...
... claim and sent troops to suppress the rebellion . The Texans lost at the Alamo , but won at San Jacinto and forced the Mexicans to withdraw . Even so , Mexico refused to make peace or recognize the independence of the Texas republic ...
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... This really did terminate the fighting in California , and though Frémont couldn't claim sole credit for liberating the province , he could take satisfaction from having accomplished more toward that goal The Gathering of Peoples 15.
... This really did terminate the fighting in California , and though Frémont couldn't claim sole credit for liberating the province , he could take satisfaction from having accomplished more toward that goal The Gathering of Peoples 15.
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... claim to the goldfields before everyone arrived . Another part wanted to publicize the discovery and thereby enlarge the clientele for his budding business . Fatefully , Brannan - in the first manifestation of the insight that would be ...
... claim to the goldfields before everyone arrived . Another part wanted to publicize the discovery and thereby enlarge the clientele for his budding business . Fatefully , Brannan - in the first manifestation of the insight that would be ...
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... " New York's merchants eagerly calculated what part of the profits they might hope to claim . One merchant , Franklin Buck , watched his commer- cial colleagues lay in goods and passengers for the Far 70 The Age of Gold.
... " New York's merchants eagerly calculated what part of the profits they might hope to claim . One merchant , Franklin Buck , watched his commer- cial colleagues lay in goods and passengers for the Far 70 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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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
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