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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... 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.
... 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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... miners as from the mines , and he opted for publicity . He purchased enough gold dust to fill a jar and trav eled to San Francisco , as Yerba Buena was now generally called . He pa- raded conspicuously about the town , waving his hat ...
... miners as from the mines , and he opted for publicity . He purchased enough gold dust to fill a jar and trav eled to San Francisco , as Yerba Buena was now generally called . He pa- raded conspicuously about the town , waving his hat ...
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... mines , or are on their way thither ; laborers of every trade have left their work benches , and tradesmen their shops ; sailors desert their ships as fast as they ar- rive on the coast . . . . I have no hesitation now in saying that ...
... mines , or are on their way thither ; laborers of every trade have left their work benches , and tradesmen their shops ; sailors desert their ships as fast as they ar- rive on the coast . . . . I have no hesitation now in saying that ...
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... mines in Cali- fornia , and that the discovery is the greatest and most startling , not to say miraculous , that the history of the last five centuries can produce . " New York's merchants eagerly calculated what part of the profits ...
... mines in Cali- fornia , and that the discovery is the greatest and most startling , not to say miraculous , that the history of the last five centuries can produce . " New York's merchants eagerly calculated what part of the profits ...
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... mine in it . Hardly any thing can be more certain to repress industry , productive labor , thrifty habits , and social improvement in general . " Were the mining regions of South America prosperous ? Hardly they were characterized by ...
... mine in it . Hardly any thing can be more certain to repress industry , productive labor , thrifty habits , and social improvement in general . " Were the mining regions of South America prosperous ? Hardly they were characterized 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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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
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