The California Gold Country Or Highway 49 Revisited
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The California Gold Country
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Author : Elliot H. Koeppel
language : en
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
Release Date : 1996-12
The California Gold Country written by Elliot H. Koeppel and has been published by Gem Guides Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12 with California categories.
The saga of the early prospectors and all the others who made their mark during the Gold Rush. This historical visitor's guide includes recommended routes along Highway 49, dubbed the Mother Lode Highway, and many historical and full-color photos.
The California Gold Country Or Highway 49 Revisited
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Author : Elliot H Koeppel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The California Gold Country Or Highway 49 Revisited written by Elliot H Koeppel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Daily Life During The California Gold Rush
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Author : Thomas Maxwell-Long
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-09-09
Daily Life During The California Gold Rush written by Thomas Maxwell-Long and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with History categories.
This comprehensive narrative history of the California Gold Rush describes daily life during this historic period, documenting its wide-reaching effects and examining the significant individuals and organizations of the time. It is easy to see the vestiges of the California Gold Rush in the state's modern culture. The San Francisco 49ers football team are named after the term given to those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold; California is nicknamed "The Golden State;" and the official state motto is "Eureka" meaning "I have found it" in Greek-a reference to mining success. But the Gold Rush was not only a pivotal event with lasting impact in California; it also greatly affected America as a whole and global society. This book examines the historical significances of the California Gold Rush, beginning with life in California prior to the Gold Rush and European colonization and concluding with information regarding contemporary California. Readers will gain historical insights from the highly detailed explorations of how life in California evolved and understand the enormous impact of an event over 160 years ago on present-day America.
The Medicine Of Memory
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Author : Alejandro Murguía
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Medicine Of Memory written by Alejandro Murguía and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An American Book Award winner’s creative memoir “traces his own family's history, as well as the long story of Hispanics in America . . . Spirited writing” (Library Journal). People who live in California deny the past, asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo, no one has the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred. From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been. In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he records, and draws us into, his own California history.
A Pennsylvania Mennonite And The California Gold Rush
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Author : Lawrence Knorr
language : en
Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-08-20
A Pennsylvania Mennonite And The California Gold Rush written by Lawrence Knorr and has been published by Sunbury Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
David Baer Hackman (1827-1896) a Mennonite from Millport, Lancaster County, PA, traveled west to California in 1850, seeking his fortune during the great Gold Rush. David wrote many letters home concerning his crossing of the plains by wagon and his many detailed experiences in and around the gold fields of California. A vivid writer for such a young man, David captures images of the mining communities, the boom towns of Sacramento, Hangtown, Mokelumne Hill, Columbia and Sonora and the lawlessness found there. He writes of early San Francisco, the local Indians, trouble with bears, and the great trees of Calaveras County. His journal then captures his return trip in 1854 by steam ship to Panama, across the Isthmus and then to New York City. Lawrence Knorr presents the journal and letters in sequence along with their historical context, providing corroborating accounts where available. In all, an excellent primary source and piece of social history from one of the most exciting times in American history.
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.
Miles Goodyear
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Author : Stephen Darley
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2021-11-15
Miles Goodyear written by Stephen Darley and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with History categories.
Historian Francis Parkman said of the western fur trappers and mountain men, “I defy the annals of chivalry to furnish the record of a life more wild and perilous than that of a Rocky Mountain Trapper.” Surprisingly, there was a mountain man named Miles Goodyear who was born and raised in Connecticut. He died in his early thirties but made his mark in that wild and perilous life as a trapper but also as a founder of two cities in the west, a horse trader and gold seeker. Miles Goodyear’s life story is full of intrigue, wild adventures and involvement with people of consequence in the west from the time he went west in 1836 until his death in 1849. No dime novel or prize winning book contains his story and he never wrote a journal. He is the subject of only one little known hard cover biography, an article in the Utah Historical Quarterly and a newspaper article in a Connecticut newspaper and there is only one historical marker that includes his name. Yet Miles Goodyear, who was described in a journal as “a restless native of Yankee land,” left a significant footprint on the development of the far west. It is hard to imagine how he could compress so many adventures and so much living in the short span of thirty-two years. He did make his mark in the Rocky Mountains and plains of the far west. This is his story.
Wildflower Walks And Roads Of The Sierra Gold Country
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Author : Toni Fauver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Wildflower Walks And Roads Of The Sierra Gold Country written by Toni Fauver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.
Red Dirt
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Author : Gary Noy
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-04-05
Red Dirt written by Gary Noy and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-05 with History categories.
Red Dirt is the story of one man's quest for personal knowledge. It is a journey to discover the influences of his homeland on his upbringing, values, and relationships. But it is much, much more. Red Dirt is also the chronicle of an expedition along California's Landscape of Imagination. It is the story of a trip down Highway 49, the fabled roadway that slices through the heart of the Gold Country the Mother Lode, home of the 49ers, the land of dreams. It is the true story of the past, present, and future of one of the most important regions in American Western history. Red Dirt is about who we are and to what we aspire. Red Dirt is about us.
American Trails Revisited
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Author : Lyn Wilkerson
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-07
American Trails Revisited written by Lyn Wilkerson and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with History categories.
American Trails Revisited follows in the proverbial footsteps of the many explorers and pioneers who traveled across the American West. Based on the works of the Federal Writers Project in the 1940's, this book organizes, updates, and enhances the original material to provide an easy-to-follow historical travel guide to the Western United States. Along with the history of the people and places you will find along the way, this book also includes information for local, state, and national parks. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be used to support local historical organizations, so that the history that you rediscover in your travels will remain for those who follow in your footsteps.