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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... hundred miles by river , bay , and ocean from Monterey , the provincial capital . Sutter hired Indians , including some whose families had first gathered around the Catholic missions in the days of the Spanish . Although the na- tives ...
... hundred miles by river , bay , and ocean from Monterey , the provincial capital . Sutter hired Indians , including some whose families had first gathered around the Catholic missions in the days of the Spanish . Although the na- tives ...
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... hundred yards . At the head of the bend was one of the shallow stretches , and in the middle of this shallow stretch was a low gravel island , which bisected the stream . Along the bend , the left bank consisted of a low line of gravel ...
... hundred yards . At the head of the bend was one of the shallow stretches , and in the middle of this shallow stretch was a low gravel island , which bisected the stream . Along the bend , the left bank consisted of a low line of gravel ...
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... his eye , but at first he thought these were merely pieces of shiny quartz . Near the lower end of the race , however , just above its junction with the river , some two hundred yards from the mill , where about Prologue 15.
... his eye , but at first he thought these were merely pieces of shiny quartz . Near the lower end of the race , however , just above its junction with the river , some two hundred yards from the mill , where about Prologue 15.
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The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands. some two hundred yards from the mill , where about six inches of water pooled in the bed of the tailrace , he decided to investigate further . " I picked up one or two ...
The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands. some two hundred yards from the mill , where about six inches of water pooled in the bed of the tailrace , he decided to investigate further . " I picked up one or two ...
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... hundreds of thousands of individual journeys , hundreds of thousands of small stories that changed the world by changing the lives of the men and women who traveled to California in pursuit of their common dream . For nearly all of them ...
... hundreds of thousands of individual journeys , hundreds of thousands of small stories that changed the world by changing the lives of the men and women who traveled to California in pursuit of their common dream . For nearly all of them ...
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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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