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Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0766013472
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 : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226923291
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 : Stephanie Watson
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467785808
The California gold rush lasted only seven years, but it affected people around the world. Track the important events and turning points that made the discovery of gold a pivotal part of the westward expansion of the United States.
Author : Arthur Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562944835
The story of the California gold rush and its effect on the character of the United States.
Author : Stewart Edward White
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664586759
The California Gold Rush of 1849 was a defining moment in American history, and in 'The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado', Stewart Edward White captures the thrilling yet perilous journey that prospectors made to reach the elusive gold fields. The book is a true-to-life account of the challenges faced by pioneers, from the treacherous trails to the lawless towns that emerged as gold fever swept the region. White expertly weaves together the stories of the diverse people who flocked to California, and shows how they came together to form a society and government from scratch.
Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464604713
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 : Cindy Barden
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580378529
Bring history to life for students in grades 4–7 with The California Gold Rush! This 64-page book provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies topics. Activities include word searches, fact-or-opinion questions, and creative writing. The book includes answer keys, time lines, and suggested reading lists.
Author : Sylvia Alden Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595524921
Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
Author : Brianna Battista
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538341209
The California gold rush of 1849 was a defining era in U.S. History. The discovery of gold led to a mass migration to the country's west coast not only from the East Coast, but from all over the world. Travellers thronged to the area in the hope of becoming rich, but the truth is, few did. Many more made a living selling goods and services to the gold miners. This volume is packed with fascinating primary sources that bring the gold rush to life for readers. Readers will view and analyze numerous primary sources, including paintings, handwritten documents, political cartoons, photographs, and more. Sidebars encourage students to ask and answer questions about primary sources surrounding the gold rush.
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1694309789
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States. It set in motion the great movement west that began almost immediately with the first commercial overland expedition funded by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and would continue with the establishment of the Oregon Trail and California Trail. The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most consequential migrations in history, and among the paths that blazed west, the California Trail was one of the most well-known. The trail was not a single road but a network of paths that began at several "jumping off" points. As it so happened, the paths were being formalized and coming into use right around the time gold was discovered in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country's power centers on the East Coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans that were near the region at the time, many of them were Army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico's independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier. At the same time, the journey itself was fraught with risk. It's easy for people with modern transportation to comfortably reminisce about the West, but many pioneers discovered that the traveling came with various kinds of obstacles and danger, including bitter weather, potentially deadly illnesses, and hostile Native Americans, not to mention an unforgiving landscape that famous American explorer Stephen Long deemed "unfit for human habitation." 19th century Americans were all too happy and eager for the transcontinental railroad to help speed their passage west and render overland paths obsolete. One of the main reasons people yearned for new forms of transportation was because of the most notorious and tragic disaster in the history of westward travel. While people still romanticize the Wild West, many Americans are also familiar with the fate of the Donner Party, a group of 87-90 people heading for California who met with disaster in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter of 1846-1847. The party knew the journey would take months, but early snowfalls in the mountains left dozens of people trapped in snow drifts that measured several feet, stranding them in a manner that made it virtually impossible for them to go any further for several weeks. The plight of the Donner Party made news across the nation, even before the surviving members were rescued and brought to safety, and by the time the doomed expedition was over, less than 50 of them made it to California. As writer Ethan Rarick summed it up, "more than the gleaming heroism or sullied villainy, the Donner Party is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous." The California Trail: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Routes that Led Americans to the Golden State examines how the various paths were forged, the people most responsible for them, and the most famous events associated with the trail's history. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the California Trail like never before.
Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806187778
During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration. Traditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America’s Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins. Beautifully written and richly illustrated with photographs and maps, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them continues the saga that began with Bagley’s highly acclaimed, award-winning So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848, hailed by critics as a classic of western history.
Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0894908782
This book describes the adventures and disasters in the lives of the people who dropped everything to seek their fortunes when pioneers discovered gold in 1848. It explains how, despite the attitudes of greed and revenge in the mining towns, the gold rush helped spark the development of the state of California.
Author : Richard Thomas Stillson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803243255
A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.
Author : Jason Glaser
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736815732
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of California, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
Author : Laurence Ivan Seidman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000003540221
Traces the history of the gold rush in California and discusses its impact on the development of that state.