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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Stran 13
... thought I had got well , " he wrote on Monday , October 11 , " and , anxious to procure means to take me back home [ to Utah ] , in the morning I went to work , and worked lightly till noon , when after dinner I had a chill , and have ...
... thought I had got well , " he wrote on Monday , October 11 , " and , anxious to procure means to take me back home [ to Utah ] , in the morning I went to work , and worked lightly till noon , when after dinner I had a chill , and have ...
Stran 15
... his eye , but at first he thought these were merely pieces of shiny quartz . Near the lower end of the race , however , just above its junction with the river , some two hundred yards from the mill , where about Prologue 15.
... his eye , but at first he thought these were merely pieces of shiny quartz . Near the lower end of the race , however , just above its junction with the river , some two hundred yards from the mill , where about Prologue 15.
Stran 18
... thought the two of them should leave for Coloma at once . Sutter was reluctant . He cited the lateness of the afternoon and the in- clemency of the weather - it had begun raining again , hard . Sutter had another reason for delay . He ...
... thought the two of them should leave for Coloma at once . Sutter was reluctant . He cited the lateness of the afternoon and the in- clemency of the weather - it had begun raining again , hard . Sutter had another reason for delay . He ...
Stran 19
... thought a great deal during the night about the consequences which might follow such a dis- covery . " He considered himself as resourceful as the next man ; his whole ca- reer , culminating in New Helvetia , was evidence of his ability ...
... thought a great deal during the night about the consequences which might follow such a dis- covery . " He considered himself as resourceful as the next man ; his whole ca- reer , culminating in New Helvetia , was evidence of his ability ...
Stran 19
... thought a great deal during the night about the consequences which might follow such a discovery." He considered himself as resourceful as the next man; his whole career, culminating in New Helvetia, was evidence of his ability to adapt ...
... thought a great deal during the night about the consequences which might follow such a discovery." He considered himself as resourceful as the next man; his whole career, culminating in New Helvetia, was evidence of his ability to adapt ...
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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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