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 4
... leaving behind a wife and children , he could congratulate himself on doing well , remarkably well . Looking out from his headquarters in the fort he named for himself , he was lord of all he sur veyed . Yet the lord slept uneasily some ...
... leaving behind a wife and children , he could congratulate himself on doing well , remarkably well . Looking out from his headquarters in the fort he named for himself , he was lord of all he sur veyed . Yet the lord slept uneasily some ...
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... leaving only when he saw fit . But he re- turned in December 1845 , and his second coming heralded the war that even now seemed likely to wrest California from Mexico and deliver it to the United States , in apparent fulfillment of the ...
... leaving only when he saw fit . But he re- turned in December 1845 , and his second coming heralded the war that even now seemed likely to wrest California from Mexico and deliver it to the United States , in apparent fulfillment of the ...
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... leaving him to finish the sawmill with the Indians . He could probably do so if he had to , but it wasn't a prospect he relished . AS WORRISOME AS the health of the men was the state of the weather . Autumn always came sooner to the ...
... leaving him to finish the sawmill with the Indians . He could probably do so if he had to , but it wasn't a prospect he relished . AS WORRISOME AS the health of the men was the state of the weather . Autumn always came sooner to the ...
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... to the gold mines , leaving children to ask where their fathers had gone and wives wondering when their husbands would return . As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world , it triggered the most astonishing mass.
... to the gold mines , leaving children to ask where their fathers had gone and wives wondering when their husbands would return . As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world , it triggered the most astonishing mass.
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... leaving the passengers to survey a chaotic deck the next morning . On his earlier voyage out from England , Archer had discovered in himself a spryness about the rigging ; twelve years later he astonished the Elizabeth Archer's crew ...
... leaving the passengers to survey a chaotic deck the next morning . On his earlier voyage out from England , Archer had discovered in himself a spryness about the rigging ; twelve years later he astonished the Elizabeth Archer's crew ...
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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 Omejen predogled - 2003 |
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
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