Author: James Klein Publisher: ISBN: 9780935182682 Category : Gold mines and mining Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This edition has all new maps and an added chapter on the Kern River area. Good introduction to the gold bearing areas. Authentic and interesting reading for any gold seeker or history buff. Illustrated.
Author: Garret Romaine Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493018981 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Gold Panning California is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in California. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in California. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background. Features include: Full-color images GPS coordinates Geology basics Tools of the trade for every level of collector Rules and regulations Polishing, preserving, crafting, and displaying your treasures
Author: Leonard L. Richards Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307277577 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374707200 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 253
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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520216598 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.
Author: Charles Beebe Turrill Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley.
Author: Paul D. Morrison Publisher: ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 196
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Now available in one volume, the major placer locations of the Sierra Nevada, taken from the original publications of that region. Complete with maps and descriptive text.
Author: Garret Romaine Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493064444 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the pacific northwest region. Fully revised and updated, this guide contains accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background. Features include: Full-color images GPS coordinates Geology basics Tools of the trade for every level of collector Rules and regulations Polishing, preserving, crafting, and displaying your treasures
Author: James Klein Publisher: ISBN: 9781889786056 Category : Gold mines and mining Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This new book reveals the secrets of the best gold-bearing areas in Northern California with maps, photos, illustrations and old tales of those who tried their luck before you. Learn about modern tools, methods and equipment from a veteran prospector and treasure hunter.
Author: James Klein
Author: Garret Romaine
Author: Barbara Braasch
Author: Leonard L. Richards
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Author: Charles Beebe Turrill
Author: Paul D. Morrison
Author: Garret Romaine
Author: James Klein