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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... moved into it in order to get rid of the brawling , partial mis- tress , and cook for ourselves . " JOHN SUTTER , MARSHALL'S PARTNER , felt much the same way about Marshall that Marshall felt about Jennie Wimmer . In Sutter's homeland ...
... moved into it in order to get rid of the brawling , partial mis- tress , and cook for ourselves . " JOHN SUTTER , MARSHALL'S PARTNER , felt much the same way about Marshall that Marshall felt about Jennie Wimmer . In Sutter's homeland ...
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... moved on . In the early 1840s the Missouri Valley was a highway to Oregon , a land extolled for its fertile soil and salubrious climate . Marshall joined an emi- grant train and in the spring of 1845 arrived in the Willamette Valley ...
... moved on . In the early 1840s the Missouri Valley was a highway to Oregon , a land extolled for its fertile soil and salubrious climate . Marshall joined an emi- grant train and in the spring of 1845 arrived in the Willamette Valley ...
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... moved thousands of cubic yards of dirt and sand and gravel in that same location during the previous several months , and this was the first sign that those thousands of yards contained anything but dirt and sand and gravel . Marshall ...
... moved thousands of cubic yards of dirt and sand and gravel in that same location during the previous several months , and this was the first sign that those thousands of yards contained anything but dirt and sand and gravel . Marshall ...
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... moved gracefully , danced and waltzed beautifully , spoke good Castilian , with a pleasant and refined voice and accent , and had , throughout , the bearing of a man of birth and figure . Yet here he was , with his passage given him ...
... moved gracefully , danced and waltzed beautifully , spoke good Castilian , with a pleasant and refined voice and accent , and had , throughout , the bearing of a man of birth and figure . Yet here he was , with his passage given him ...
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... moved from the village of his birth , Chang - wan , to Hong Kong after the British wrested that colony from China as part of the Opium War settlement ; in Hong Kong he learned to speak English , evidently with an eye toward lifting ...
... moved from the village of his birth , Chang - wan , to Hong Kong after the British wrested that colony from China as part of the Opium War settlement ; in Hong Kong he learned to speak English , evidently with an eye toward lifting ...
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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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