Download or read book Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush written by David Cleary and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979 this century's largest gold rush began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued ever since. This book looks at the Amazon gold rush without sensationalizing it, at the politics and economics of gold in Brazil, and at the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.
Download or read book Tropic of Passion Amazon Gold Fever written by Charles Nuetzel and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came for ancient treasure . . . and discovered death, destruction, and love! Two tales of jungle adventure, "Tropic of Passion" and "Amazon Gold Fever"!
Download or read book At the End of the Rainbow written by Gordon MacMillan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment.
Download or read book Amazon the Modern Day Gold Rush written by Semling and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stampede written by Brian Castner and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder. Upon this stage, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith, goodtime girls and desperate miners, Skookum Jim, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich.
Download or read book Amazon Gold Fever written by Charles Nuetzel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a man's search for treasure in the dangerous jungles of the Amazon, where a nightmare death awaits anyone who might try to take the gold treasures so jealously protected by their guardian native tribesmen!He was in desperate need of funds, and he needed to get back to his homeland. But the price to pay could be far too much! As he was soon to learn.An adventure into the deaths of terror, with a golden treasure as it rewarding payoff for anybody bold enough to take it! He had a choice between life and death. Or riches beyond his wildest dreams.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Steve Boggan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold. For centuries people have been entranced by the riches it promises; thousands have gone wild in their search for it and surely there will be many more. After the Financial Crisis, the price of gold reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, particularly in the United States, people with no experience of prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went mining. In 2013, Steve Boggan decided he wanted a piece of the action, flying to San Francisco to join the 21st century's gold rush in a quest to understand the allure of the metal – and maybe find some for himself, too. Meeting a selection of colourful characters dreaming of striking it rich, he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting while learning about the history and economics of gold. He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers who trekked thousands of miles, risking death for the chance of unimaginable wealth. Written with Boggan's characteristic charm, Gold Fever is a hugely entertaining travelogue and a moving insight into a key period in the creation of modern America.
Download or read book Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush written by David Cleary and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979 this century's largest gold rush began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued ever since. This book looks at the Amazon gold rush without sensationalizing it, at the politics and economics of gold in Brazil, and at the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.
Download or read book Gold Fever Tales from the California Gold Rush written by Rosalyn Schanzer and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropic of Passion Amazon Gold Fever written by Charles Nuetzel and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came for ancient treasure . . . and discovered death, destruction, and love! Two tales of jungle adventure, "Tropic of Passion" and "Amazon Gold Fever"!
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Steve Boggan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Catherine McMorrow and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Forty-niners and how they came to California in search of gold.
Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by KidCaps and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think the gold rush was all about money and getting rich, think again! Most people didn't get rich at all. In this book, just for kids, you will find out what really happened during the gold rush.
Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Rosalyn Schanzer and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Uses folk-art style illustrations and eyewitness excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848.
Download or read book Amazon Gold Rush written by Steve Brian Burkhalter and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold written by Fred Rosen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter’s Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall’s find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, three hundred thousand prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth, but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes readers back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen’s enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.
