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Gold
Firsthand Accounts from the Rush That Made the West
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ISBN-13:
9781493010950
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
368
Autor:
John Richard Stephens
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Gold offers a feel for what it was like to live through the heady days of the discovery and exploitation of gold in California in the mid-1800s through firsthand accounts, short stories, and tall tales written by the people who were there. These eyewitness accounts offer an immediacy that brings the events to life.
The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold—about $600 billion in today’s dollars.Gold offers a feel for what it was like to live through the heady days of the discovery and exploitation of gold in California in the mid-1800s through firsthand accounts, short stories, and tall tales written by the people who were there. These eyewitness accounts offer an immediacy that brings the events to life.
ContentsAcknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction: The World’s Most Humongous Treasure Hunt
Part One: Nonfiction
1 Discovering Gold: James Marshall
2 My Great Plans Were Destroyed: John A. Sutter
3 “Gold! Gold!!!”: General William Tecumseh Sherman
4 The Californian Ceases Publication: The Californian
5 Official Report to the US Government: Colonel Richard Mason
6 Trading for Dust: Franklin Buck
7 The Rush Begins: Elisha Oscar Crosby
8 A Flood of Pioneers: Alonzo Delano
9 Rich Diggings: James Ayers
10 Of Miners and Gold: Carl Meyer
11 Living Dead in Califor-nee: Alonzo Delano
12 Seeking Richer Diggings: John S. Hittell
13 California’s Strange Society: Henry Coke
14 The Fast Life in San Francisco: J. D. Borthwick
15 To Live by Luck: Henry David Thoreau
16 A Woman at the Mines: Dame Shirley
17 Gold Made Misery My Companion: Alonzo Delano
18 Christmas and New Years’ in Mud Springs: Andrew Gilmore
19 San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
20 Flush Times in California: Ulysses S. Grant
21 Lost in Snow: Anonymous
22 The Strangest Population: Mark Twain
Part Two: Fiction
23 All Gold Cañon: Jack London
24 The Banks of the Sacramento: Jack London
25 Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction: The World’s Most Humongous Treasure Hunt
Part One: Nonfiction
1 Discovering Gold: James Marshall
2 My Great Plans Were Destroyed: John A. Sutter
3 “Gold! Gold!!!”: General William Tecumseh Sherman
4 The Californian Ceases Publication: The Californian
5 Official Report to the US Government: Colonel Richard Mason
6 Trading for Dust: Franklin Buck
7 The Rush Begins: Elisha Oscar Crosby
8 A Flood of Pioneers: Alonzo Delano
9 Rich Diggings: James Ayers
10 Of Miners and Gold: Carl Meyer
11 Living Dead in Califor-nee: Alonzo Delano
12 Seeking Richer Diggings: John S. Hittell
13 California’s Strange Society: Henry Coke
14 The Fast Life in San Francisco: J. D. Borthwick
15 To Live by Luck: Henry David Thoreau
16 A Woman at the Mines: Dame Shirley
17 Gold Made Misery My Companion: Alonzo Delano
18 Christmas and New Years’ in Mud Springs: Andrew Gilmore
19 San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
20 Flush Times in California: Ulysses S. Grant
21 Lost in Snow: Anonymous
22 The Strangest Population: Mark Twain
Part Two: Fiction
23 All Gold Cañon: Jack London
24 The Banks of the Sacramento: Jack London
25 Scorpion Gulch: Nathan Urner
26 The Luck of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte
27 How I Went to the Mines: Bret HarteScorpion Gulch: Nathan Urner
26 The Luck of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte
27 How I Went to the Mines: Bret Harte
A Note on the Text
Introduction: The World’s Most Humongous Treasure Hunt
Part One: Nonfiction
1 Discovering Gold: James Marshall
2 My Great Plans Were Destroyed: John A. Sutter
3 “Gold! Gold!!!”: General William Tecumseh Sherman
4 The Californian Ceases Publication: The Californian
5 Official Report to the US Government: Colonel Richard Mason
6 Trading for Dust: Franklin Buck
7 The Rush Begins: Elisha Oscar Crosby
8 A Flood of Pioneers: Alonzo Delano
9 Rich Diggings: James Ayers
10 Of Miners and Gold: Carl Meyer
11 Living Dead in Califor-nee: Alonzo Delano
12 Seeking Richer Diggings: John S. Hittell
13 California’s Strange Society: Henry Coke
14 The Fast Life in San Francisco: J. D. Borthwick
15 To Live by Luck: Henry David Thoreau
16 A Woman at the Mines: Dame Shirley
17 Gold Made Misery My Companion: Alonzo Delano
18 Christmas and New Years’ in Mud Springs: Andrew Gilmore
19 San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
20 Flush Times in California: Ulysses S. Grant
21 Lost in Snow: Anonymous
22 The Strangest Population: Mark Twain
Part Two: Fiction
23 All Gold Cañon: Jack London
24 The Banks of the Sacramento: Jack London
25 Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction: The World’s Most Humongous Treasure Hunt
Part One: Nonfiction
1 Discovering Gold: James Marshall
2 My Great Plans Were Destroyed: John A. Sutter
3 “Gold! Gold!!!”: General William Tecumseh Sherman
4 The Californian Ceases Publication: The Californian
5 Official Report to the US Government: Colonel Richard Mason
6 Trading for Dust: Franklin Buck
7 The Rush Begins: Elisha Oscar Crosby
8 A Flood of Pioneers: Alonzo Delano
9 Rich Diggings: James Ayers
10 Of Miners and Gold: Carl Meyer
11 Living Dead in Califor-nee: Alonzo Delano
12 Seeking Richer Diggings: John S. Hittell
13 California’s Strange Society: Henry Coke
14 The Fast Life in San Francisco: J. D. Borthwick
15 To Live by Luck: Henry David Thoreau
16 A Woman at the Mines: Dame Shirley
17 Gold Made Misery My Companion: Alonzo Delano
18 Christmas and New Years’ in Mud Springs: Andrew Gilmore
19 San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
20 Flush Times in California: Ulysses S. Grant
21 Lost in Snow: Anonymous
22 The Strangest Population: Mark Twain
Part Two: Fiction
23 All Gold Cañon: Jack London
24 The Banks of the Sacramento: Jack London
25 Scorpion Gulch: Nathan Urner
26 The Luck of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte
27 How I Went to the Mines: Bret HarteScorpion Gulch: Nathan Urner
26 The Luck of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte
27 How I Went to the Mines: Bret Harte