The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold ! GOLD ! ! GOLD ! ! ! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected... California the Golden - Stran 197avtor: Rockwell D. Hunt - 1911 - 362 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Hillary W. St. Clair - 1977 - 94 strani
...half-planted, the house half-built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of picks and shovels, and the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained $l28 worth of the real stuff in one day's washing; and the average for all concerned is $20 per diem."... | |
| Vardis Fisher, Opal Laurel Holmes, Opal Laurel Fisher - 1968 - 492 strani
...sordid cry of Gold! GOLDI GOLD! The fields are left half-planted, the houses half-built. Everything is neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes and the means of transportation to Captain Sutter's Valley." It is said that as soon as "the worthy editor wrote and published that statement... | |
| Arthur Wilson - 1994 - 318 strani
...manufacture of picks and shovels, and the means of transportation to the spot, one man obtained l28 dollars worth of the real stuff in one day's washing, and the average for all concerned is 20 dollars per diem. When these stories were taken up by newspapers on the East Coast, reaction was... | |
| Craig Canine - 1997 - 320 strani
...country," the Califorman complained in its last issue, "resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! Gold!! GOLD!!!' while the field is left half planted, the...neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes." Two weeks later Kemble gave up, too. "We have done," he wrote in the Star's final issue. "Let our word... | |
| Marlene Smith-Baranzini - 1999 - 532 strani
...to Los Angeles and from the sea to the Sierra Nevada resounds with the sordid cry of "gold! GOLD!! GOLD///" while the field is left half planted, the...everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes.4 Although we have no statistics, production must have suffered. Fortunately, the disruption... | |
| J. S. Holliday - 1999 - 374 strani
...in the shape of a newspaper has received five minutes' attention from any one of our citizens. . . . The field is left half planted, the house half built and everything neglected bur the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes and the means of transportation to the spot where one man... | |
| David Sievert Lavender, David Lavender - 2000 - 474 strani
...country," wrote one San Francisco newspaper editor, "... resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! GOLD! GOLD!' while the field is left half planted, the house...everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pick axes." The alcalde of Monterey described the situation there: "All were off for the mines, some... | |
| Wilbur H. Morrison - 1998 - 296 strani
...nation and, by fall, around the world. A San Francisco newspaper tried to quell the excitement, saying, "The field is left half planted, the house half built,...neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes." Gold-seeking "Argonauts" rushed to California from all over the world. California's population increased... | |
| 2000 - 340 strani
...the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! Gold! GOLD! while the fields are left half planted, the house half built and everything neglected but the manufacture of picks and shovels and the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained $128 worth of... | |
| Holly L. Skinner - 2001 - 308 strani
...and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! GOLD!! GOLD!!! while the field is left half planted, the...neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes." By the end of June, 1848, San Francisco was essentially a ghost town. Sailing ships, with their forest... | |
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