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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... looked on with a mixture of disgust and good - riddance . After a week's hard work the cabin was ready . Nineteen - year - old Azariah Smith , one of Bigler's fellow insurgents , noted with satisfaction in his diary : " Last Sunday we ...
... looked on with a mixture of disgust and good - riddance . After a week's hard work the cabin was ready . Nineteen - year - old Azariah Smith , one of Bigler's fellow insurgents , noted with satisfaction in his diary : " Last Sunday we ...
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... looked the soldier's part . He carried himself erect , in the military manner . His blond hair curled above his ears and across the crest of his broad forehead , giving him the appearance of a Teutonic Napoleon . He kept his side ...
... looked the soldier's part . He carried himself erect , in the military manner . His blond hair curled above his ears and across the crest of his broad forehead , giving him the appearance of a Teutonic Napoleon . He kept his side ...
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... looked bright and beautiful , the hills covered with grass and flowers , the live - oaks so serene and homelike ; and the low adobe houses , with red - tiled roofs and whitened walls , contrasted well with the dark pine - trees behind ...
... looked bright and beautiful , the hills covered with grass and flowers , the live - oaks so serene and homelike ; and the low adobe houses , with red - tiled roofs and whitened walls , contrasted well with the dark pine - trees behind ...
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... looked on for a moment ; a frenzy seized my soul ; unbidden my legs performed some entirely new movements of polka steps - I took several . Houses were too small for me to stay in ; I was soon in the street in search of necessary ...
... looked on for a moment ; a frenzy seized my soul ; unbidden my legs performed some entirely new movements of polka steps - I took several . Houses were too small for me to stay in ; I was soon in the street in search of necessary ...
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... looked like a little child that had been burned to death . " The alternate entrée - iguana - was only slightly more appetizing . At Gorgona the emigrants left the river and set forth on foot - mules ' feet , horses ' , or their own ...
... looked like a little child that had been burned to death . " The alternate entrée - iguana - was only slightly more appetizing . At Gorgona the emigrants left the river and set forth on foot - mules ' feet , horses ' , or their own ...
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47 | |
65 | |
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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