A Diary For 1849
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Author | : Charles Ross Parke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
One of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and medical observations. Parke returned east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua, continuing to record his experiences. Handsomely produced, but with space-wasting margins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Kristiana Gregory |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515323228 |
A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."
Author | : James Knox Polk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
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Author | : Chauncey L. Canfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
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 | : Sallie Hester |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780736803441 |
Excerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a fourteen-year-old girl who tells her family's journey along the Oregon-California Trail during 1849-1850. Includes activities and a timeline related to the era.
Author | : William Benemann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The correspondents come from a variety of economic and social backgrounds. Some are barely literate, while others craft prose on par with the finest nineteenth-century travel literature. Their writings address a broad range of concerns, from business prospects and consumer prices to social mores and popular amusements."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Louisa Catherine Adams |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674369270 |
Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.
Author | : M. D. James Lawrence Tyson |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429045574 |
Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical practice and his hospital at Cold Spring, where his patients included a number of Oregonians. Tyson closes his hospital at the end of the summer, sailing from San Francisco as a ship's physician, crossing the Isthmus and landing in the United States in December 1849. His diary pays special attention to miners' health and working conditions
Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 081316527X |
Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.