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Author : William Kelly
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Author : William Kelly
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada written by William Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishman William Redmond Kelly (1791-1855) visited California in 1849 and 1850, and his account of that trip was widely read. An excursion to California (1851) is the two-volume account of Kelly's trip to the American West. The first volume takes him from England to California, January-July 1849. After landing in New York City, Kelly records his route through Buffalo, Detroit, Ottawa, Illinois, and St. Louis, before joining an overland train at Independence, Missouri in April. He records scenery and wildlife and Native American tribes as well as buffalo and antelope hunts and the party's stay in Utah. The book provides exceptional depth of detail on the mechanics of a wagon train's operations. The volume closes with Kelly's arrival in California and remarks on gold mining. The second volume was published separately the next year as "A stroll through the diggings of California." Here Kelly describes gold prospecting and life in mining camps on the Sacramento River and Rock, Middle, and Salt Creeks as well as visits to Sacramento, San Jose, and San Francisco. Throughout, he offers details of daily life and work and observations on native ethnic groups and European immigrants.
Author : William Kelly (J.P.)
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada, with a Stroll Through the Diggings and Ranches of that Country written by William Kelly (J.P.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Kelly (J.P.)
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An excursion to California over the prairie, Rocky mountains, and great Sierra Nevada written by William Kelly (J.P.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1156 pages
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 1152 pages
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel A. Lane
Publisher : Summit County Historical Society
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Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Gold Rush: The Overland Diary of Samuel A. Lane, 1850 written by Samuel A. Lane and published by Summit County Historical Society. This book was released on 1984 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overland diary of Samuel A. Lane from Summit County, Ohio to the gold fields of California in 1850.
Author : Margaret Casterline Bowen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806157976
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Jersey Gold written by Margaret Casterline Bowen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers. Jersey Gold chronicles the experiences of the New Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found. Animated by the trekkers’ own words and observations and illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings by one of the company’s own men, Jersey Gold follows the Newark Overland Company’s journey by rail, stage, and riverboat to the Missouri frontier town of Independence, the group’s jumping-off point for the Oregon-California trail. There, the company splintered. Their divergent paths afford views of the westward journey from multiple perspectives as the companies faced the perils of the wilderness and the treachery of human nature. Once in gold country, many booked immediate passage home, but some remained with Darcy to work a successful mining operation before returning east with comfortable fortunes. A few, enchanted by the opportunities of the Golden Coast, took up permanent residence there—and in their stories we witness the emergence of California amid unprecedented lawlessness, the controversy of slavery, and diverse nationalities. The story of the Newark Overland Company—in many ways a panorama of the nineteenth century—ranges from the wildness of the frontier through the chaos of the Civil War to the throes of early industrialization, and features such notables as John Sutter, Brigham Young, and Henry Clay. In chronicling this journey, Jersey Gold vividly re-creates a defining chapter in American history.
Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184019
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book So Rugged and Mountainous written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began. While many previous authors have told parts of this story, Bagley has recast it in its entirety for modern readers. Drawing on research he conducted for the National Park Service’s Long Distance Trails Office, he has woven a wealth of primary sources—personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts—into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. Illustrated with photographs and historical maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a projected four-volume history, Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This sweeping series describes how the “Road across the Plains” transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the center of trail history, not on its margins.
Author : Harry Harris
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Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Birds of the Kansas City Region written by Harry Harris and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. R. Eschner
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Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Hydrologic and Morphologic Changes in Channels of the Platte River Basin written by T. R. Eschner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George M. Chandler (Firm)
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare and Fine Books written by George M. Chandler (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ada Nisbet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520915824
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book British Comment on the United States written by Ada Nisbet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481220
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Age of Gold written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224965
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Rooted in Barbarous Soil written by Kevin Starr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously illustrated with with black and white and color photographs.
Author : California. Division of Mines and Geology
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
