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The California Gold Rush
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Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2002-12-02
The California Gold Rush written by Linda Jacobs Altman and has been published by Enslow Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In 1848, gold was discovered in California. This exciting news spread eastward. People from all walks of life with dreams of enormous riches packed up their belongings and left their comfortable homes behind in search of the hidden treasure. Author Linda Jacobs Altman describes the development of this rugged world of the mining towns, which sparked the development of California. Altman also highlights the stories of prospectors, bandits and thrill seekers who make up the legend and the myth of the time.
Golden Dreams
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Author : Frank Baumgarder
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-11
Golden Dreams written by Frank Baumgarder and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-11 with History categories.
When gold was found in Northern California, news of it spread like a wildfire during the spring and summer of 1848. At first, most people thought the reports were too good to be true, but as weeks and months flew by, they heard about more people striking it rich – and imaginations started to run wild. Tens of thousands of people started to dream about gold, and some of them left everything they knew to make the journey to California. It didn’t matter if you were black, white or brown – anyone could go. Even people in Central and South America, Australia, China, and Western Europe heard about the gold and made the journey. By 1855, hundreds of thousands of people had converged on California. In this study, the author shares diary entries from gold seekers, painting a detailed portrait of the frenzy that overtook the world, the lives of the miners, and how the move West changed the fabric of a nation. Without the dreams, hard work, and dedication of the miners who moved West, the United States of America would not be what it is today.
Gold Rush Stories
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Author : Gary Noy
language : en
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Gold Rush Stories written by Gary Noy and has been published by Heyday.ORIM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with History categories.
From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics—perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as “slickens”) produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierra, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush. “Seamlessly fuses academic rigor, original reporting and emotional intensity into one meditation on an era.... If the task of the historian is to be faithful to lost truths, then Noy's latest exploration succeeds on every level, and does so in a way that will keep readers wanting to dig deeper into the past.”—Scott Thomas Anderson, Sierra Lodestar “An original and lively look at all the usual suspects, plus bears, weather, women, Joaquín, disappointment and dissipation…. Exhaustively researched and highly entertaining.”—JoAnn Levy, author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
Striking It Rich The Story Of The California Gold Rush
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Author : Stephen Krensky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Striking It Rich The Story Of The California Gold Rush written by Stephen Krensky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with California categories.
Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.
Gold Fever
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Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2007
Gold Fever written by Rosalyn Schanzer and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. Uses folk-art style illustrations and eyewitness excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848.
Gold
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Author : Fred Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Gold written by Fred Rosen and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with History categories.
A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter’s Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall’s find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, three hundred thousand prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth, but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes readers back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen’s enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.
What Was The Gold Rush
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Author : Joan Holub
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-07
What Was The Gold Rush written by Joan Holub and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life!
Gold Rush
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Author : Gordon Ell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Gold Rush written by Gordon Ell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Gold miners categories.
"Stories ... tell of the characters and incidents of the great gold rushes last century ... traditional information about the miners' lives, and the different ways that gold was recovered ... of the various nationalities and clashes of personalities"--P. [1].
Strike It Rich
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Author : Brianna Hall
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Strike It Rich written by Brianna Hall and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Explores the California Gold Rush by examining the causes leading up to it and the immediate and lasting effects it had on the people and places involved"--
Gold Rush Fever
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Author : Barbara Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Release Date : 2001-09-01
Gold Rush Fever written by Barbara Greenwood and has been published by Kids Can Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The year is 1898. Over the last decade, North America has been ground down by a depression. Wages are low, jobs are scarce and people are getting desperate. Although Aunt Rachel isn't happy about 13-year-old Tim and his older brother, Roy, heading off to the Klondike Gold Rush, the possibility of striking it rich is hard to resist. Tim and Roy begin their trek to the Yukon filled with excitement. Little do they suspect the harsh realities they'll have to face: blinding snowstorms, raging rapids, backbreaking work and bitter disappointment. In this unique book, each chapter is followed with factual information, illustrations and photographs of the people and places of the time. In addition, easy-to-do activities help bring the historical period to life.