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| Author | : Arthur Blake |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781562944834 |
The story of the California gold rush and its effect on the character of the United States.
| Author | : Brianna Battista |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2018-07-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1538341190 |
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 | : Rand Richards |
| Publisher | : Heritage House Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781879367067 |
San Francisco in 1849 was a time and place like no other in American history. As word of the discovery of gold in California spread, people from all over the world descended on San Francisco--ground zero for the avalanche of humanity and goods pouring into the fabled El Dorado. There have been many books on the Gold Rush, but Mud, Blood, and Gold is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a 'you are there' immediacy author Rand Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, Richards chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.
| Author | : Malcolm J. Rohrbough |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1998-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520216598 |
When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.
| Author | : Sylvia Alden Roberts |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0595524923 |
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 | : Joan Holub |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2013-02-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1101610298 |
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 | : Avi |
| Publisher | : Candlewick |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2020-03-10 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1536206792 |
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 | : Mark A. Eifler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2016-07-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317910214 |
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
| Author | : Daniel Turner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2016-09-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781539160366 |
Join the cowboys, gunslingers, lawmen, gold miners and Native Americans of the Wild West. Begin with Lewis and Clark's exploration of the frontier, witness Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn and enter a Wild West saloon. Simple history, telling the story without information overload.This title is in US English.
| Author | : J. S. Holliday |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : 2015-03-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0806181214 |
When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
