Author: Richard Lunt HalePublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Adventures of a Forty-niner
Author: Daniel KnowerPublisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes Knower's business and real estate speculations in San Francisco as well as an extended visit to a mining camp near Coloma and the life of prospectors there.
Forty-niners 'round the Horn
Author: Charles R. SchultzPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570033292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Drawing upon more than one hundred unpublished diaries, Schultz profiles the individuals who embarked on these journeys and demonstrates how markedly the gold rush voyages differed from general commercial trading and whaling ventures."--BOOK JACKET.
A History of the United States
Author: Edward ChanningPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
A History of the United States: The war for southern independence
Author: Edward ChanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Recollections of a '49er
Author: Edward McIlhanyPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
From the preface: Such a work as Edward McIlhany's is most valuable because it gives an insight into the life and struggles of the "days of '49" that the ordinary history, embellished as it may be, must needs lack.
A Quaker Forty-Niner
Author: Charles Edward PancoastPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512805424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West—steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California.
Writings on American History
Author: Native America
Author: Michael Leroy ObergPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118714334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at the center of the narrative. Presents an innovative approach to Native American history byplacing individual native communities and their experiences at thecenter of the study Following a first chapter that deals with creation myths, theremainder of the narrative is structured chronologically, coveringover 600 years from the point of first contact to the presentday Illustrates the great diversity in American Indian culture andemphasizes the importance of Native Americans in the history ofNorth America Provides an excellent survey for courses in Native Americanhistory Includes maps, photographs, a timeline, questions fordiscussion, and “A Closer Focus” textboxes that providebiographies of individuals and that elaborate on the text, exposing students to issues of race, class, and gender
Journals of Forty-niners
Author: LeRoy Reuben HafenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803273160
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Western history is all the richer thanks to LeRoy and Ann Hafen, who have assembled a fascinating array of diaries and memoirs of forty-niners who set out from Salt Lake City toward California?s gold fields over the Old Spanish Trail. For many would-be gold miners, this dry, dangerous route was preferable to crossing the Sierra Nevada. The Donner party disaster was only three years old and fresh in the minds of many. In reality, the choice of the southern route did not ease travelers? efforts. The unremitting heat and lack of water killed more people and animals than the snows of the mountains. Jacob Stover?s narrative provides fine descriptions of these challenges, especially the difficulty in transporting supplies. Of added interest is the journal of Henry Bigler, a former member of the Mormon Battalion, who was the first person to record Marshall?s discovery of gold at Sutter?s Mill.
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