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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... nearly all other American ranges ) , and in mid - July found himself at the gate of Sutter's Fort . Sutter , looking over the new ar- rivals , remarked their " decent appearance " and allowed , in light of the shortage of even ...
... nearly all other American ranges ) , and in mid - July found himself at the gate of Sutter's Fort . Sutter , looking over the new ar- rivals , remarked their " decent appearance " and allowed , in light of the shortage of even ...
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... nearly ninety degrees to the left , over a distance of several hundred yards . At the head of the bend was one of the shallow stretches , and in the middle of this shallow stretch was a low gravel island , which bisected the stream ...
... nearly ninety degrees to the left , over a distance of several hundred yards . At the head of the bend was one of the shallow stretches , and in the middle of this shallow stretch was a low gravel island , which bisected the stream ...
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... nearly impassable for wheeled vehi cles . Any provisions and equipment that didn't get to Coloma by about the first of December probably wouldn't get there till spring . In 1847 the initial autumn rains reached Coloma in early November ...
... nearly impassable for wheeled vehi cles . Any provisions and equipment that didn't get to Coloma by about the first of December probably wouldn't get there till spring . In 1847 the initial autumn rains reached Coloma in early November ...
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... nearly destroyed the proj ect . The excavation of the headrace had had to be done more or less pre- cisely ; if the water overflowed the banks of the headrace it would erode the foundations of the mill . But once past the mill , the ...
... nearly destroyed the proj ect . The excavation of the headrace had had to be done more or less pre- cisely ; if the water overflowed the banks of the headrace it would erode the foundations of the mill . But once past the mill , the ...
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... nearly every free hand and available arm to the gold 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 ...
... nearly every free hand and available arm to the gold 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 ...
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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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