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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... miles away , and over . From all Sherman could see at Monterey , the war might have missed California completely . " Every thing on shore looked bright and beautiful , the hills covered with grass and flowers , the live - oaks so serene ...
... miles away , and over . From all Sherman could see at Monterey , the war might have missed California completely . " Every thing on shore looked bright and beautiful , the hills covered with grass and flowers , the live - oaks so serene ...
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... miles back from the river , and about a mile from the American Fork , which also is a respectable stream . The fort encloses a space of about two hundred yards by eighty ; the walls are built of adobe or sun - dried brick . All the ...
... miles back from the river , and about a mile from the American Fork , which also is a respectable stream . The fort encloses a space of about two hundred yards by eighty ; the walls are built of adobe or sun - dried brick . All the ...
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... miles they reached Mormon Island , so called from the three hundred Mormons — some from Marshall's company at Coloma , the rest other veterans of the Mormon Battalion - who were digging for gold in the sand and gravel of the streambed ...
... miles they reached Mormon Island , so called from the three hundred Mormons — some from Marshall's company at Coloma , the rest other veterans of the Mormon Battalion - who were digging for gold in the sand and gravel of the streambed ...
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... miles from San Francisco , compared to two thousand for Acapulco and Honolulu , four thousand for Callao , six thousand for Valparaiso , and seven thousand for Sydney and Canton . While Lieutenant Loeser was struggling east , the word ...
... miles from San Francisco , compared to two thousand for Acapulco and Honolulu , four thousand for Callao , six thousand for Valparaiso , and seven thousand for Sydney and Canton . While Lieutenant Loeser was struggling east , the word ...
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... miles inland . Within days merchants were consigning cargoes for California ; gold seekers were purchasing passage north . Two dozen hope- fuls filled the berths of the Virjinia , which got away first . By chance another ship arrived ...
... miles inland . Within days merchants were consigning cargoes for California ; gold seekers were purchasing passage north . Two dozen hope- fuls filled the berths of the Virjinia , which got away first . By chance another ship arrived ...
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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 |
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream H. W. Brands Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2002 |
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