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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... thousands of cubic yards of dirt and sand and gravel in that same location during the previous several months , and this was the first sign that those thousands of yards contained anything but dirt and sand and gravel . Marshall ...
... thousands of cubic yards of dirt and sand and gravel in that same location during the previous several months , and this was the first sign that those thousands of yards contained anything but dirt and sand and gravel . Marshall ...
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... thousands , then by the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands . They came by sailing ship and steamship , by horse and mule and ox and wagon and foot . They came in companies and alone , with money and without , knowing and naïve ...
... thousands , then by the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands . They came by sailing ship and steamship , by horse and mule and ox and wagon and foot . They came in companies and alone , with money and without , knowing and naïve ...
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... thousands of dollars in specie or precious plate . Indian " neophytes " -natives attached to the missions religiously and economically — totaled perhaps twenty thousand . They would have numbered far more if not for the introduced ...
... thousands of dollars in specie or precious plate . Indian " neophytes " -natives attached to the missions religiously and economically — totaled perhaps twenty thousand . They would have numbered far more if not for the introduced ...
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... thousands of herds of cattle ; blessed with a climate than which there can be no better in the world ; free from all manner of diseases , whether epidemic or endemic ; and with a soil in which corn yields from seventy to eighty fold ...
... thousands of herds of cattle ; blessed with a climate than which there can be no better in the world ; free from all manner of diseases , whether epidemic or endemic ; and with a soil in which corn yields from seventy to eighty fold ...
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... thousands of laborers out on the streets and highways of America . Many headed west , as Amer- icans had always done in times of trouble , hoping to make a new life where land was cheaper and opportunity more abundant . Yet land in 1840 ...
... thousands of laborers out on the streets and highways of America . Many headed west , as Amer- icans had always done in times of trouble , hoping to make a new life where land was cheaper and opportunity more abundant . Yet land in 1840 ...
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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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