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Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1597143847
Another choice gathering of yarns, stories, and Tall Tales from the Gold Country by the author of the very successful Sierra Stories
Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : California
ISBN : 0689808038
Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.
Author : Donald J. Bourdon
Publisher : Royal British Columbia Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 077266854X
In 1858, reports of gold found on the Fraser River spurred tens of thousands of people--mostly men--to rush into the territory we now call British Columbia. They came with visions of fortune in their eyes. The lucky ones struck it rich, but most left penniless or died trying for the motherlode. Some stayed behind and helped build the colony and the province of British Columbia.
Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504024488
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.
Author : Avi
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536206791
Newbery Medalist Avi brings us mud-caked, tent-filled San Francisco in 1848 with a willful heroine who goes on an unintended — and perilous — adventure to save her brother. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn’t even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until one day, when Father is in the gold fields, her younger brother, Jacob, is kidnapped. And so Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships. Beloved storyteller Avi is at the top of his form as he ushers us back to an extraordinary time of hope and risk, brought to life by a heroine readers will cheer for. Spot-on details and high suspense make this a vivid, absorbing historical adventure.
Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1417793120
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.
Author : Joan Holub,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101610299
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!
Author : Frank Baumgarder
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480886773
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.
Author : Brianna Hall
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491401842
"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"--
Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766046467
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.
Author : Charlotte Foltz Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002536176
Gold fever!When the steamships Excelsior and Portland docked in San Francisco and Seattle in the spring of 1897 bringing news that gold had been discovered in the Canadian Yukon, gold fever hit. Soon thousands of stampeders from as far away as Europe were making their way to the Klondike, sure that they were going to strike it rich. Very few had even the slightest idea of just how inhospitable the Klondike was, how dangerous the journey would be, and how slim their chances were of making enough money there just to turn around and get home. With striking and often poignant archival photographs and an engaging text, Charlotte Jones explains the events leading up to the Yukon gold rush and the amazing events that followed the discovery of gold and changed Alaska forever. Maps, bibliography, and index are included.
Author : Rich Mole
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936215
In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this historical tale of mayhem and obsession, characters like prospectors George Carmack and Skookum Jim, Skagway gangster Soapy Smith and Mountie Sam Steele come to life. Enduring savage weather, unforgiving terrain, violence and starvation, a lucky few made their fortune, and some just as quickly lost it. The lure of the North is still irresistible in this exciting account of a fabled era of Canadian history.
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597143851
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
Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : California
ISBN : 0780763386
Describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West.
Author : Barbara Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
ISBN : 1550748521
A unique hybrid of fact, fiction and activities pulls kids into the excitement of the Yukon Gold Rush.