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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... soon drained dry . Oaks were scattered about the lower slopes , with madrones and cy- presses interspersed . Higher up the ridges , pines predominated . The gradient - that is , steepness of the riverbed in the valley was such that the ...
... soon drained dry . Oaks were scattered about the lower slopes , with madrones and cy- presses interspersed . Higher up the ridges , pines predominated . The gradient - that is , steepness of the riverbed in the valley was such that the ...
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... soon for John Fré- mont , who was in California anxiously awaiting the belligerent word . Fré- mont's anxiety reflected both his personal ambition and his uneasy conscience . His ambition drove him to dream of conquering California for ...
... soon for John Fré- mont , who was in California anxiously awaiting the belligerent word . Fré- mont's anxiety reflected both his personal ambition and his uneasy conscience . His ambition drove him to dream of conquering California for ...
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... SOON EXPLODED Sherman's complacency . Sutter and James Marshall , by discovering the gold , had prepared the explosive charge , but it was Sam Brannan who put the match to the powder . Like Sherman , Brannan arrived in California from ...
... SOON EXPLODED Sherman's complacency . Sutter and James Marshall , by discovering the gold , had prepared the explosive charge , but it was Sam Brannan who put the match to the powder . Like Sherman , Brannan arrived in California from ...
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... soon be overrun by gentiles . Better to remain in the wastes of the Great Basin , where the Saints could build their colony in peace . Brannan continued to argue , to the point of insubordination . He thought Young was being willfully ...
... soon be overrun by gentiles . Better to remain in the wastes of the Great Basin , where the Saints could build their colony in peace . Brannan continued to argue , to the point of insubordination . He thought Young was being willfully ...
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... soon in the street in search of necessary outfits . Piles of gold rose up be- fore me at every step ; castles of marble , dazzling the eye with their rich appliances ; thousands of slaves bowing to my beck and call ; myriads of fair ...
... soon in the street in search of necessary outfits . Piles of gold rose up be- fore me at every step ; castles of marble , dazzling the eye with their rich appliances ; thousands of slaves bowing to my beck and call ; myriads of fair ...
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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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