The
Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by H. W. Brands
Texas A&M University professor H.W. Brands enhances his reputation
as one of America's great popular historians with The Age of Gold,
which tells the story of the California gold rush through rollicking narrative
and intelligent analysis. "James Marshall's discovery of gold at Coloma
[in 1848] turned out to be a seminal event in history, one of those rare
moments that divide human existence into before and after," he writes.
It launched "the most astonishing mass movement of people since the Crusades"
and "helped initiate the modern era of American economic development."
Brands describes how thousands of people from all over the world hazarded
the journey, faced the scientific challenge of extracting precious metal
from the earth, and finally struggled "to sink roots" where so many came
merely "to strip the land." This book is something of a departure for Brands,
who most recently has written biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Theodore
Roosevelt (both of them excellent). Yet he tackles this new topic with
confidence, telling dozens of stories about John Fremont, Leland Stanford,
and less famous forty-niners. He concludes by describing why these tales
have a national and even global importance. The Age of Gold is magnificent
in its sweep, and not to be missed by fans of American history. --John
Miller - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 560 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.39 x
9.58 x 6.51
Publisher: Doubleday; ; (August 20, 2002)
ISBN: 0385502168
Art
of the Gold Rush
by Janice Tolhurst Driesbach, et al
(Paperback - April 1998)
Bear
Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846
by Dale L. Walker
(Paperback - May 2000)
Blacks
in Gold Rush California
by Rudolph M. Lapp
California
1850: A Snapshot in Time
by Janice Marschner
(Paperback)
California
Gold Country (The Traveler's Guide To)
by Stuart A. Kallen
The
California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited
by Elliot H. Koeppel
The
California Gold Rush (Cornerstones of Freedom)
by R. Conrad Stein
The
California Gold Rush (Let Freedom Ring/Exploring the West)
by Judy Monroe
California
Gold Rush (Scholastic History Readers)
by Peter Roop
California
Gold Rush: Search for Treasure
by Catherine E. Chambers
California's
Gold Rush Country: A Guide to the Best of the Mother Lode
by Barbara Braasch
The
Complete Gold Country Guidebook: Discovering California's Gold Rush Region
by Indian Chief Pub House
Covered
Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1852: The California
Trail
by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor), Glenda Riley (Introduction)
(Paperback - April 1997)
The
Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train,
1846-47
by Frank Mullen
(Paperback - September 1997)
Durham's
Place Names of California's Gold Country
by David L. Durham
Early
Mining Days - California Gold Country: The Story Behind the Scenery
by Stanley W. Paher
Ghost
Towns and Mining Camps of California: A History & Guide
by Remi A. Nadeau
Ghost
Towns of Northern California: Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining
Camps
(Hardcover)
by Philip Varney
Ghost
Towns of Northern California: Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining
Camps
(Paperback)
by Philip Varney
Gold:
The California Story
by Mary Hill
(Hardcover)
Gold:
The California Story
by Mary Hill
Gold
Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush
by Rosalyn Schanzer
Gold
Rivers of Northern California
by Marjorie B. Giles
The
Gold Rush
by Bobbie Kalman
The
Gold Rush: A Primary Source History of the Quest for California's Gold
(Primary Sources in American History)
by Kerri O'Donnell
Gold
Rush: Hands-On Projects about Mining the Riches of California
by Powerkids Pr.
A
Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California
by James J. Rawls
Publisher: University of California Press; (June 1999)
A
Good Camp: Mines of Julien and the Cuyamacas
by Leland Fetzer
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications; (November 2002)
A
Guide to the California Gold Rush
by Eugene R. Hart
The
History of the Gold Discoveries in the Northern Mines of California's Mother
Lode Gold Belt As Told By The Newspapers and Miners 1848-1875
by Lewis J. Swindle
Book Description:
This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1875, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Northern Mines area of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt. The Northern Mines was that area north of the Cosumnes River, which included Placerville on northward. It included the region containing the South, Middle and North forks of the American River, the Bear River, the South, Middle and North forks of the Yuba River, and the South, Middle and North forks of the Feather River, plus all the other branches and tributaries that ran into the named forks and rivers.
This book contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, this reveals just when the "New Diggings" as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggings they were; the names of some of the prospectors who found some of the diggings or who were at the diggings and what they were taking out. There are tales of how some of the diggings were found and why some of them received the names they did. The overall purpose of this book is to give a full picture of exactly what was happening to as 'many' different named diggings, locations, camps, and towns that came up in the Northern Mines area, and to give an account of events over at least a certain length of time, exactly as it was reported.
To determine from just where each newspaper article within this book comes from, each of the newspaper articles used has first, the date on which it appeared in the newspaper, followed in parentheses by the name of the newspaper from which that particular article was obtained from.
Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Trafford Publishing; (November 22, 2000)
ISBN: 155212472X
Jewish
Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849-1880
by Ava Fran Kahn
Looking for Gold: The Modern Prospector's Handbook
by Bradford Angier
Listed under Gold
Maps
of the California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important
Decade
by Carl I. Wheat
Riches
for All: The California Gold Rush and the World
by Kenneth N. Owens
Roaring
Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
by Susan Lee Johnson
(Hardcover - February 2000)
Rooted
in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
(California History Sesquicentennial Series)
by Kevin Starr (Editor), et al
(Paperback)
Rush
for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
by J. S. Holliday
Publisher: University of California Press; (June 1999)
Six
Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years Residence in Upper
and Lower California 1847-48-49
by E. Gould Buffum
The
Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Publisher: Heyday Books; Reprint edition (March 2001)
A
Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850
by William Benemann (Editor)
(Hardcover - September 1999)
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