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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... travelers had begun to attempt the Central Amer- ican isthmus , but the justifiably dreaded Chagres fever and the uncertain connections to vessels on the Pacific side deterred many who otherwise would have employed this shortcut . For ...
... travelers had begun to attempt the Central Amer- ican isthmus , but the justifiably dreaded Chagres fever and the uncertain connections to vessels on the Pacific side deterred many who otherwise would have employed this shortcut . For ...
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... travelers intercepted Young and the other Mormons on the banks of the Green River . Brannan described to Young the wonders of California : the gentle cli- mate , the fertile soil , the navigable rivers , the beckoning bay of San Fran ...
... travelers intercepted Young and the other Mormons on the banks of the Green River . Brannan described to Young the wonders of California : the gentle cli- mate , the fertile soil , the navigable rivers , the beckoning bay of San Fran ...
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... traveling at a rate of eight miles per hour . If this continues , the four days will turn into two . Dense clouds surround us on all sides . The captain has been lamenting all day the absence of the sun . " Pérez thought the captain ...
... traveling at a rate of eight miles per hour . If this continues , the four days will turn into two . Dense clouds surround us on all sides . The captain has been lamenting all day the absence of the sun . " Pérez thought the captain ...
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... traveling with her husband were male . Jessie had never been to sea ; in fact , she had never been much be- yond the bosom of her family . " I had never been obliged to think for or take care of myself , " she recalled , " and now I was ...
... traveling with her husband were male . Jessie had never been to sea ; in fact , she had never been much be- yond the bosom of her family . " I had never been obliged to think for or take care of myself , " she recalled , " and now I was ...
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... . Housing had never been plentiful ; now it was nonexistent for most of the travelers . They slept in the streets , by the harbor , on doorsteps , and under awnings . The rough living heightened the danger 14 The Age of Gold.
... . Housing had never been plentiful ; now it was nonexistent for most of the travelers . They slept in the streets , by the harbor , on doorsteps , and under awnings . The rough living heightened the danger 14 The Age of Gold.
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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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