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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... side of the peninsula south of the entrance to San Francisco Bay . Sutter was a soldier by training , albeit less training than he let on . He said he had reached the rank of captain in the Swiss army . This wasn't true ; he never got ...
... side of the peninsula south of the entrance to San Francisco Bay . Sutter was a soldier by training , albeit less training than he let on . He said he had reached the rank of captain in the Swiss army . This wasn't true ; he never got ...
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... sides of the valley were dissected by ravines that ran full in rainy weather but soon drained dry . Oaks were scattered about the lower slopes , with madrones and cy- presses interspersed . Higher up the ridges , pines predominated ...
... sides of the valley were dissected by ravines that ran full in rainy weather but soon drained dry . Oaks were scattered about the lower slopes , with madrones and cy- presses interspersed . Higher up the ridges , pines predominated ...
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... side deterred many who otherwise would have employed this shortcut . For those setting out from the Ameri- can East , travel by foot or wagon was feasible , but hardly attractive . Since the early 1840s emigrants had been crossing the ...
... side deterred many who otherwise would have employed this shortcut . For those setting out from the Ameri- can East , travel by foot or wagon was feasible , but hardly attractive . Since the early 1840s emigrants had been crossing the ...
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... side of his fellow - passenger and townsman , a fat , coarse , vulgar , pretentious fellow of a Yankee trader , who had made money in San Diego , and was eating out the vitals of the Bandinis , fattening upon their extravagance ...
... side of his fellow - passenger and townsman , a fat , coarse , vulgar , pretentious fellow of a Yankee trader , who had made money in San Diego , and was eating out the vitals of the Bandinis , fattening upon their extravagance ...
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... side is one sheet of water , but at ordinary seasons the stream is confined within its banks of about three hundred yards wide .... Sutter's Fort stands about three miles back from the river , and about a mile from the American Fork ...
... side is one sheet of water , but at ordinary seasons the stream is confined within its banks of about three hundred yards wide .... Sutter's Fort stands about three miles back from the river , and about a mile from the American Fork ...
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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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