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Author | : J. S. Holliday |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 0520214021 |
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Author | : Paul Robert Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0753465841 |
This book covers the entire period of the boom-and-bust of one of the greatest expansion periods in U.S. history--from the dangers of the journey to the rough and tumble of the mining settlements. Full color.
Author | : Tod Olson |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781426303159 |
An adventurer shares his experience looking for gold during the California Gold Rush.
Author | : Joseph N. Pelton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319392735 |
This book captures the most exciting advances in the harnessing of space as a global resource. The authors track the growing number of space businesses and opportunities for investors, and the many possible benefits of spaceplanes, space stations and even space colonies. The authors also discuss the need for more regulatory reform. Companies like Planetary Resources are now forming to find mineral-rich asteroids and bring back new riches to Earth. Solar power satellites in the next few years will start to beam clean energy back to Earth, to meet the growing demands of a still-developing world. Innovative space industries are vital to the survival of modern human life, and the authors demonstrate what can be done to encourage the growing of the "New Space" frontier. From lassoing and then mining asteroids to developing new methods of defending the planet from space hazards and setting up new hotels and adventures for tourists in space, this new industry will have profound effects on Earth, especially on its economy. This book is based on a study of international experts commissioned ahead of the UNISPACE+50 meeting, having distilled the results of this comprehensive fact-finding process into a compact and very readable form. It can serve as an excellent starting point for understanding all the activities underway or planned to make space truly our next frontier.
Author | : Paul Robert Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9781451711318 |
"In 1848, carpenter James Marshall made a chance discovery that would change the face of the American West. That discovery: a few shiny flakes-of gold in a riverbed he was digging. Within a year 800,000 gold-seekers from all over the world were on their way to California, and the Gold Rush was on. This book covers the entire period of the boom-and-bust of one of the greatest expansion periods in US history-from the dangers of the journey, to the rough and tumble of the mining settlements, the day-to-day life of a miner and those who provided services to him, the easy-come-easy-go fortunes won and lost, and the Boomtowns that turned to Ghost Towns when the rush was over. Packed with period photographs, original artifacts, illustrations of daily life in the mining towns, and plenty of historical detail, this book will capture the imagination of young readers who love the idea of striking it rich"--From publisher's website.
Author | : Kenneth N. Owens |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806136813 |
Combines narrative history and firsthand Mormon accounts that cast light on the presence of Latter-day Saints in California during the Gold Rush in the middle 1840s. Reprint.
Author | : Stephen Krensky |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9780689808036 |
Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.
Author | : Kenneth N. Owens |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803235700 |
An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.
Author | : J. S. Holliday |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2015-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806181214 |
When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Author | : n/a |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1625210868 |
Describes the California Gold Rush, including how it began, life in mining camps, and effects of the Gold Rush on California.