Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041431205
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041431205
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: Edward Stanly
Author: Norman BrownPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life.
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Days of Gold
Author: Malcolm J. RohrboughPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520922077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession—soon called 49ers—included the wealthy and the poor from every state and territory, including slaves brought by their owners. In numbers, they represented the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. In this first comprehensive history of the Gold Rush, Malcolm J. Rohrbough demonstrates that in its far-reaching repercussions, it was the most significant event in the first half of the nineteenth century. No other series of events between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War produced such a vast movement of people; called into question basic values of marriage, family, work, wealth, and leisure; led to so many varied consequences; and left such vivid memories among its participants. Through extensive research in diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Rohrbough uncovers the personal dilemmas and confusion that the Gold Rush brought. His engaging narrative depicts the complexity of human motivation behind the event and reveals the effects of the Gold Rush as it spread outward in ever-widening circles to touch the lives of families and communities everywhere in the United States. For those who joined the 49ers, the decision to go raised questions about marital obligations and family responsibilities. For those men—and women, whose experiences of being left behind have been largely ignored until now—who remained on the farm or in the shop, the absences of tens of thousands of men over a period of years had a profound impact, reshaping a thousand communities across the breadth of the American nation.
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1879-80
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Author: