On The Trail To The California Gold Rush

Author : Alonzo Delano
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803266499

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On the Trail to the California Gold Rush by Alonzo Delano Pdf

Lured by ?the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California,? Alonzo Delano (1806?74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush to El Dorado. For the next five months?April to early September 1849?he persevered in writing his remarkably detailed diary, recounting his experiences among the more than thirty thousand goldseekers representing all thirty states who struggled across half of the continent to California?s ?gold fields.? With each entry the reader is drawn into the changing circumstances, from a hurried trailside burial of a comrade to a defense against an Indian attack; from suffering thirst in the desert to anger at a lazy campmate. ø Unlike most diarists who at the end of the epic journey gave up their demanding task, Delano continued his vivid account until the summer of 1851. He went on to report as a professional journalist, ranging far and wide across the scenes of life in the diggings and the cities, from prospecting along the Yuba River to witnessing lynch law in San Francisco. ø First published in 1854 as Life on the Plains and among the Diggings and deemed a California Gold Rush classic, this new edition will carry on the adventure for thousands of new readers.

Author : Russell Wangersky
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781778520204

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Same Ground by Russell Wangersky Pdf

“Read him.” — George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky’s great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of gold in 1849. William Castle Dodge was his name, and he was 22 years old. He wrote a diary of that eventful journey that comes into the author’s hands 160 years later. And typically, quixotically, Wangersky decides to follow Dodge’s westward trail across the great bulging middle of America, not in search of gold but something even less likely: that elusive thing called family. What ensues becomes this story, by turns hilarious and profound, about a very long trip — by car, in Wangersky’s case, and on mule and foot in Dodge’s. Interweaving his experiences on the road with Dodge’s diary, the author contemplates the human need to hunt for roots and meaning as he — and Dodge — encounter immigrants who risk everything to be somewhere else, while only glimpsing those who are there already and who want to hold onto their claim in the stream of human migration. Same Ground is a story about what time washes away and what persists — and what we might find, unexpectedly, if we go looking.

Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226519623

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Hard Road West by Keith Heyer Meldahl Pdf

Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Gold Trail, Meldahl uses the diaries and letters of the 1849 settlers to reveal how geology and topography directly affected our nations westward expansion.

Author : Jean F. Blashfield
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756500419

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The California Gold Rush by Jean F. Blashfield Pdf

Describes adventures and disasters in the lives of people who rushed to the gold mines of California in 1848 and explains how this event sparked the state's development.

Author : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502617682

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Life As a Prospector in the California Gold Rush by Kate Shoup Pdf

People often dream of becoming rich. However, in the mid-1800s, people really could become rich overnight. The California gold rush brought many men to the area. These prospectors searched for gold. Some became lucky, while others lost all of their life savings. This book describes the history of the California gold rush and highlights what life was like for the men, women, and children who lived through the era.

Author : Benjamin Butler Harris
Publisher : Silverstowe Book
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1618090453

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The Gila Trail by Benjamin Butler Harris Pdf

The Texas Argonauts were on the march west as early as January, 1849 -a remarkable circumstance when it is recalled that the famous tea caddy of gold dust which set off the gold fever in the "States" did not reach Washington, D. C, until December 7, 1848. From Brownsville, Corpus Christi, and San Antonio, the dusty trails of the gold seekers crisscrossed through West Texas and northern Mexico. Among the travelers was young attorney Benjamin Butler Harris, who joined the fifty-two man Duval party, one of the earliest emigrant parties to head for California from Texas. Traveling by saddle horse and pack mule, the Duval group was probably the first to operate a ferry on the Colorado River, although the boat was only a hastily caulked wagon bed. The overland journey was fraught with interest and peril-Apache alarms and skirmishes adding to the hazards of nature -but the party reached the mines on September 29, 1849. Here, published for the first time, are Harris's colorful reminiscences of his experiences on the Gila Trail and in the Mother Lode mining camps in 1849-50. Harris was intelligent, observant, and gifted with a sense of humor, and his account of the trail and the feverish activities of the early mining camps makes first-rate reading for all Western Americana enthusiasts. There is a bonus, too, in the new material presented on some of the most interesting and important men of California's early days, among them Major James D. Savage, Judge David S. Terry, and John Joel Glanton. About the author and editor: The sixth of twelve children in a prominent Virginia family, Benjamin Butler Harris graduated from Nashville University, Tennessee, read law and went to East Texas to seek his fortune. Soon convinced that the East Texas climate, with its "Brazos fever," would do him in if he remained, he decided to take his law practice and his bad liver farther west-hence this account. Richard H. Dillon who has provided the superb introduction and informative notes for Harris's account, is a historian of note and author of Embarcadero an excellent story of the port of pre-fire San Francisco.

Author : Harold L. James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : California
ISBN : 1893061086

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Bruff's Wake by Harold L. James Pdf

"Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.

Author : Eric Kraft
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781450906920

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Gold Rush! by Eric Kraft Pdf

The rush to discover gold was a significant and exciting chapter in American history. Thousands of Americans headed west to the promise of instant wealth. They met all kinds of adventures and hardships. Equipped with their courage and sense of adventure, these pioneers risked all to find their fortune!

Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781631377051

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The California Gold Rush by Marcia Amidon Lusted Pdf

This book relays the factual details of the California Gold Rush. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a builder working on Sutter's Mill when gold was discovered, a '49er who left New York for California, and a prospector from Chile who came by ship to California to find riches. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.

Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226923291

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Hard Road West by Keith Heyer Meldahl Pdf

The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal

Author : Bob Ring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132859922

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Detour to the California Gold Rush by Bob Ring Pdf

Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0766013472

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The California Trail to Gold in American History by Carl R. Green Pdf

Examines the thrills and disappointments of the nineteenth-century rush for gold in California, during which people abandoned their jobs and homes and headed west in hopes of becoming rich.

Author : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502609687

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The California Gold Rush by Kate Shoup Pdf

On January 24, 1848, pioneer James W. Marshall discovered gold in central California. When word got out, gold fever set in, drawing hundreds of thousands of pioneers to the state hoping to strike it rich. Discover the circumstances and effects of this event in The California Gold Rush.

Author : Theresa Morlock
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680487671

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The Gold Rush by Theresa Morlock Pdf

In this authoritative guide, readers will examine the many aspects of the California Gold Rush and the event's larger role in westward expansion. Studying the forty-niners, the Native Americans of California, gold extraction techniques, and transportation west, readers will gain insight into how the gold rush changed the region and the many developments it led to. Accessible language clarifies advanced concepts, and engrossing sidebars feature additional information. Stunning photographs add dimension to the text, and primary sources are integrated, offering an up-close examination. This book's comprehensive material is a terrific resource to supplement curricular studies.

Author : Frank Baumgarder
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480886773

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Golden Dreams by Frank Baumgarder Pdf

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.