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Author: Henry William BiglerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Bigler's Chronicle of the West. The Conquest of California, Discovery of Gold, and Normon Settlement as Reflected in Henry William Bigler's Diaries. [Ed.] by Erwin G. Gudde
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Author: Henry William BiglerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Bigler's Chronicle of the West
Author: Erwin G. GuddePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520315375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Bigler's Chronicle of the West
Author: Henry William BiglerPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Bigler's Chronicle of the West. The Conquest of California, Discovery of Gold, and Mormon Settlement as Reflected in Henry William Bigler's Diaries, [Ausz.] By Erwin G[ustav] Gudde. (Illustr.) - Berkeley [usw.]: Univ. of California Press 1962. X, 145 S. 8°
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Author: Henry William BiglerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Bigler's Chronicle of the West
Author: Henry William BiglerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Bigler's Chronicle of the West
Author: Henry William BiglerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780520005280
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Riches for All
Author: Kenneth N. OwensPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
Calaveras Gold
Author: Ronald H. LimbaughPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417578X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.
American Diaries: Diaries written from 1845 to 1980
Author: Laura ArkseyPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Author: Karl Jack BauerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).