The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rus

📁 The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

✍ H.W. Brands 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Anchor Books 🌐 English

The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, acc

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush a

📁 Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation

✍ Malcolm J Rohrbough 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

<div>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-soo

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush a

📁 Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation

✍ Malcolm J. Rohrbough 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

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

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush a

📁 Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation

✍ Malcolm J. Rohrbough 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

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

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush a

📁 Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation

✍ Malcolm J. Rohrbough 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Univ of California Press 🌐 English

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 cal

The California Gold Rush and the Klondik

📁 The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America’s Most Famous Gold Rushes

✍ Charles River Editors 📂 Library 🌐 English

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rushes written by participants *Includes bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the disco

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

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