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The Experiences Of A Forty Niner During A Third Of A Century In The Gold Fields
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Book Synopsis The Experiences of a Forty-niner During a Third of a Century in the Gold Fields by : Charles D. Ferguson
Download or read book The Experiences of a Forty-niner During a Third of a Century in the Gold Fields written by Charles D. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferguson, from Aurora, Ohio, described his travel overland to California in 1850 and mining in the Chico area. In 1852 moved to Australia for more gold mining. In 1883 he returned to Chico.
Book Synopsis The Experiences of a Forty-niner During a Third of a Century in the Gold Fields by : Charles D. Ferguson
Download or read book The Experiences of a Forty-niner During a Third of a Century in the Gold Fields written by Charles D. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of a Forty-Niner by : Chauncey Canfield
Download or read book The Diary of a Forty-Niner written by Chauncey Canfield and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold 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. Everything changed almost literally overnight. While the Mexican-American War technically concluded with a treaty in February 1948, the announcement brought an influx of an estimated 90,000 "Forty-Niners" to the region in 1849, hailing from other parts of America and even as far away as Asia. All told, an estimated 300,000 people would come to California over the next few years, as men dangerously trekked thousands of miles in hopes of making a fortune, and in a span of months, San Francisco's population exploded, making it one of the first mining boomtowns to truly spring up in the West. This was a pattern that would repeat itself across the West anytime a mineral discovery was made, from the Southwest and Tombstone to the Dakotas and Deadwood. Of course, that was made possible by the collective memory of the original California gold rush. Despite the mythology and the romantic portrayals that helped make the California Gold Rush, most of the individuals who came to make a fortune struck out instead. The gold rush was a boon to business interests, which ensured important infrastructure developments like the railroad and the construction of westward paths, but ultimately, it also meant that big business reaped most of the profits associated with mining the gold. While the Forty-Niners are often remembered for panning gold out of mountain streams, it required advanced mining technology for most to make a fortune. Nevertheless, the California Gold Rush became an emblem of the American Dream, and the notion that Americans could obtain untold fortunes regardless of their previous social status. As historian H.W. Brands said of the impact the gold rush had on Americans at the time, "The old American Dream ... was the dream of the Puritans, of Benjamin Franklin's 'Poor Richard'... of men and women content to accumulate their modest fortunes a little at a time, year by year by year. The new dream was the dream of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck... [it] became a prominent part of the American psyche only after Sutter's Mill." While the gold rush may not have every Forty-Niner rich, the events still continue to influence the country's collective mentality.
Book Synopsis The Idea of America by : William Bonner
Download or read book The Idea of America written by William Bonner and published by Laissez Faire Books. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of a '49er by : Edward Washington McIlhany
Download or read book Recollections of a '49er written by Edward Washington McIlhany and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Washington McIlhany (b. 1828) left West Virginia for the California gold fields in 1849. Recollections of a 49er (1908) describes his overland journey west, gold prospecting on Feather River and Grass Valley, hunting and trapping, proprietorship of a general store and hotel in Onion Valley, the Colorado gold rush, and Missouri railroading after the Civil War.
Download or read book Eureka Stockade written by Gregory Blake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle, is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent gold miners at the Eureka lead on the Ballarat Gold Diggings. The fighting was intense, the carnage appalling and the political consequences of the affair profound. This book, for the first time, examines in great detail the actual military events that unfolded during the twenty minutes of deadly fighting at Eureka.
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Book Synopsis Riches for All by : Kenneth N. Owens
Download or read book Riches for All written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.
Book Synopsis Never Caught Twice by : Matthew S. Luckett
Download or read book Never Caught Twice written by Matthew S. Luckett and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Nebraska Book Award Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four Plains groups—American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers—Matthew S. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and shows that horse stealing transformed plains culture and settlement in fundamental and surprising ways. From Lakota and Cheyenne horse raids to rustling gangs in the Sandhills, horse theft was widespread and devastating across the region. The horse’s critical importance in both Native and white societies meant that horse stealing destabilized communities and jeopardized the peace throughout the plains, instigating massacres and murders and causing people to act furiously in defense of their most expensive, most important, and most beloved property. But as it became increasingly clear that no one legal or military institution could fully control it, would-be victims desperately sought a solution that would spare their farms and families from the calamitous loss of a horse. For some, that solution was violence. Never Caught Twice shows how the story of horse stealing across western Nebraska and the Great Plains was in many ways the story of the old West itself.
Book Synopsis Economic Analysis of Contract Law, Antitrust Law, and Safety Regulations by : Jenny Bourne Wahl
Download or read book Economic Analysis of Contract Law, Antitrust Law, and Safety Regulations written by Jenny Bourne Wahl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (American Grit) by : Ken Lizzio
Download or read book Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (American Grit) written by Ken Lizzio and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the majesty and terror of the Gold Rush firsthand While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff’s—widely regarded as the best and most accurate—provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a quintessential American legend. Ken Lizzio traces the pioneer’s thrilling adventure from the first rumors of gold, through his crossing of the frontier, all the way to his incredible survival and escape to a prosperous life back east. This is the first book to create a narrative of Bruff’s journey from his meticulously written and preserved diary. And with more than fifty of Bruff’s original pencil sketches and paintings, Forty-Niner provides a new, immersive vision of one of America’s most fabled eras. The American Grit series brings you true tales of endurance, survival, and ingenuity from the annals of American history. These books focus on the trials of remarkable individuals with an emphasis on rich primary source material and artwork.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of an American Gold Seeker by : John Evans Brown
Download or read book Memoirs of an American Gold Seeker written by John Evans Brown and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of a '49er. A Quaint and Thrilling Narrative of a Trip Across the Plains, and Life in the California Gold Fields During the Stirring Days Following the Discovery of Gold in the Far West by : Edward Washington McIlhany
Download or read book Recollections of a '49er. A Quaint and Thrilling Narrative of a Trip Across the Plains, and Life in the California Gold Fields During the Stirring Days Following the Discovery of Gold in the Far West written by Edward Washington McIlhany and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 by : Mary Floyd Williams
Download or read book History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 written by Mary Floyd Williams and published by Berkeldy : University of California Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The California Gold Rush by : Gary F. Kurutz
Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Gary F. Kurutz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Searching for Riches by : Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Download or read book Searching for Riches written by Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tillman D. Johnson Collection of the University of Utah by : University of Utah. Library. Tillman D. Johnson Collection
Download or read book The Tillman D. Johnson Collection of the University of Utah written by University of Utah. Library. Tillman D. Johnson Collection and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: