Author: Jasper Smith Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Hill's letters recount the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company (from Iowa) moving across country to California in 1849, and life in the mining camps. He described economic information, labor conditions, commodity prices, early exhaustion of the placer mines, and transition to quartz mining. After three years, he returned to Iowa without wealth.
The Letters of a Young Miner
Author: Jasper Smith Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Hill's letters recount the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company (from Iowa) moving across country to California in 1849, and life in the mining camps. He described economic information, labor conditions, commodity prices, early exhaustion of the placer mines, and transition to quartz mining. After three years, he returned to Iowa without wealth.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Hill's letters recount the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company (from Iowa) moving across country to California in 1849, and life in the mining camps. He described economic information, labor conditions, commodity prices, early exhaustion of the placer mines, and transition to quartz mining. After three years, he returned to Iowa without wealth.
The California Gold Rush
Author: John Walton Caughey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N. McKinstry, 1850-1852
Author: Byron Nathan McKinstry
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
California Gold Rush, 1849-1852
Author: Joseph Warren Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
California Gold Rush
Author: Charles H. Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Mining for Freedom
Author: Sylvia Alden Roberts
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595524923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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."
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595524923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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."
Life in California Before the Gold Discovery
Author: John Bidwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
California Gold Rush
Author: Linda Thompson
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1612364144
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Discusses The History And Events Of The California Gold Rush.
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1612364144
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Discusses The History And Events Of The California Gold Rush.
The California Gold Rush
Author: Sabrina Crewe
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836833935
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The California Gold Rush.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836833935
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The California Gold Rush.
Roaring Camp
Author: Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.