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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... hoped to encounter word from the new Mormon colony and receive further marching orders , this time from their own people . Some 150 set out from Los Angeles in late July , and after a hot , wear- ing journey along the same route ...
... hoped to encounter word from the new Mormon colony and receive further marching orders , this time from their own people . Some 150 set out from Los Angeles in late July , and after a hot , wear- ing journey along the same route ...
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... HOPED . With the political squabbling over - or transferred east at any rate , to Frémont's trial - Sherman anticipated a re- turn to the quiet occupation . He settled into his assignment as adjutant to Colonel ( and Governor ) Richard ...
... HOPED . With the political squabbling over - or transferred east at any rate , to Frémont's trial - Sherman anticipated a re- turn to the quiet occupation . He settled into his assignment as adjutant to Colonel ( and Governor ) Richard ...
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... hoped to see some of that fighting . Like Sherman , Brannan was disappointed -- but not so disap- pointed as Sherman , for , unlike Sherman , Brannan was no soldier . Instead , he was a churchman , or professed to be . In reality , he ...
... hoped to see some of that fighting . Like Sherman , Brannan was disappointed -- but not so disap- pointed as Sherman , for , unlike Sherman , Brannan was no soldier . Instead , he was a churchman , or professed to be . In reality , he ...
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... hoped to persuade Young and the others to join him there . It certainly occurred to him that as the leader of the California wing of the church , he would be well placed to benefit from general recognition of his foresight . Brannan's ...
... hoped to persuade Young and the others to join him there . It certainly occurred to him that as the leader of the California wing of the church , he would be well placed to benefit from general recognition of his foresight . Brannan's ...
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... hoped to transplant to their colonies elsewhere in the tropics , that had brought Bligh to the South Pacific on his fateful voyage . ) Behind the village rose the slopes of a volcano , upon the peak of which , the islanders said ...
... hoped to transplant to their colonies elsewhere in the tropics , that had brought Bligh to the South Pacific on his fateful voyage . ) Behind the village rose the slopes of a volcano , upon the peak of which , the islanders said ...
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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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