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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... miles from Sutter's settlement and many times that distance from anything that could be called civilization . But the Mormons were as irreplaceable as Jen- nie Wimmer . They intended to stay only till spring , when they would trek east ...
... miles from Sutter's settlement and many times that distance from anything that could be called civilization . But the Mormons were as irreplaceable as Jen- nie Wimmer . They intended to stay only till spring , when they would trek east ...
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... miles from the nearest arm of the San Francisco Bay , and two 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 ...
... miles from the nearest arm of the San Francisco Bay , and two 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 ...
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... miles upriver from Sutter's Fort , to the higher elevations where the air was cooler , the rainfall greater , and the soil better - drained . If he went clear to the Sierras themselves , he could find whole forests of pine ( which gave ...
... miles upriver from Sutter's Fort , to the higher elevations where the air was cooler , the rainfall greater , and the soil better - drained . If he went clear to the Sierras themselves , he could find whole forests of pine ( which gave ...
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... miles or more . In time the mission lands sup- ported great herds of cattle and horses and flocks of sheep . Grain fields , vegetable gardens , and fruit orchards rounded out the farms . Besides the missions , which were controlled by ...
... miles or more . In time the mission lands sup- ported great herds of cattle and horses and flocks of sheep . Grain fields , vegetable gardens , and fruit orchards rounded out the farms . Besides the missions , which were controlled by ...
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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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