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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... months after Marshall was mustered out of the military , the army released the members of the Mor- mon Battalion , one of the more remarkable contingents in the long history of American military voluntarism . The war with Mexico began ...
... months after Marshall was mustered out of the military , the army released the members of the Mor- mon Battalion , one of the more remarkable contingents in the long history of American military voluntarism . The war with Mexico began ...
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... months earlier had succumbed to starvation and cannibalism amid the snows of winter . Evidence of the disaster was still vis- ible . " Their bones were lying scattered over the ground , " recorded one of the Mormons . Many of the Saints ...
... months earlier had succumbed to starvation and cannibalism amid the snows of winter . Evidence of the disaster was still vis- ible . " Their bones were lying scattered over the ground , " recorded one of the Mormons . Many of the Saints ...
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... month ( $ 25 ) or by the cubic yard of earth and rock displaced ( 12 % cents ) . Hale , confident , and zealous in their desire to help the church , they opted for the piece rate . Sutter was impressed with their energy and ambition ...
... month ( $ 25 ) or by the cubic yard of earth and rock displaced ( 12 % cents ) . Hale , confident , and zealous in their desire to help the church , they opted for the piece rate . Sutter was impressed with their energy and ambition ...
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... months . Smith wrote of the storm's effect on a crucial part of the construction : " It raised the river very high , and we expected to see the water go around the abutment almost every minute . " Marshall and Sutter worried about the ...
... months . Smith wrote of the storm's effect on a crucial part of the construction : " It raised the river very high , and we expected to see the water go around the abutment almost every minute . " Marshall and Sutter worried about the ...
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... months , and this was the first sign that those thousands of yards contained anything but dirt and sand and gravel . Marshall reminded them that they had come to Coloma to build a sawmill . If they didn't work on the mill , they wouldn ...
... months , and this was the first sign that those thousands of yards contained anything but dirt and sand and gravel . Marshall reminded them that they had come to Coloma to build a sawmill . If they didn't work on the mill , they wouldn ...
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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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