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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... named for himself , he was lord of all he sur veyed . Yet the lord slept uneasily some nights . His fitfulness traced to the March day in 1844 when an American military officer unexpectedly ap- peared from out of the snowdrifts of the ...
... named for himself , he was lord of all he sur veyed . Yet the lord slept uneasily some nights . His fitfulness traced to the March day in 1844 when an American military officer unexpectedly ap- peared from out of the snowdrifts of the ...
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... named Mis- souri Green . But fortune fooled him . He contracted an illness his contem- poraries called " fever and ague " -later generations would identify it as malaria - which sapped his strength , blurred his vision and judgment ...
... named Mis- souri Green . But fortune fooled him . He contracted an illness his contem- poraries called " fever and ague " -later generations would identify it as malaria - which sapped his strength , blurred his vision and judgment ...
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... named with fortuitous aptness by John Frémont ) and spread north , south , and west across the greatest of the world's oceans . In every port that heard the news , it set hearts racing . People dropped what they were doing , bought ...
... named with fortuitous aptness by John Frémont ) and spread north , south , and west across the greatest of the world's oceans . In every port that heard the news , it set hearts racing . People dropped what they were doing , bought ...
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... named Rosario Améstica , a favorite among the men ) , four cows , eight pigs , and three dogs ( besides the seventeen sailors and the captain and pilot ) . Most seemed ordinary enough , but two attracted the special attention of Pérez ...
... named Rosario Améstica , a favorite among the men ) , four cows , eight pigs , and three dogs ( besides the seventeen sailors and the captain and pilot ) . Most seemed ordinary enough , but two attracted the special attention of Pérez ...
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... named Ned Hawkins , he prepared to head east . Settling affairs to wit , selling his sheep in a slow market - required several weeks ; had Archer been of a less phlegmatic temper he would have grown impatient , for gold - hunters were ...
... named Ned Hawkins , he prepared to head east . Settling affairs to wit , selling his sheep in a slow market - required several weeks ; had Archer been of a less phlegmatic temper he would have grown impatient , for gold - hunters were ...
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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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