Download or read book The Gold Rush Diary of Ram n Gil Navarro written by Ram¢n Gil Navarro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Navarro encountered people from all over the world brought together in a society marked by racial and ethnic intolerance, swift and cruel justice, and great hardships. It was a world of contrasts, where the roughest of the rough lived in close proximity to extremely refined cultural circles."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The California Gold Rush Diary of a German Sailor written by Adolphus Windeler and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Download or read book Seeds of Hope written by Kristiana Gregory and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."
Download or read book California Gold Rush Diary written by Daniel Burgett and published by . This book was released on 1969* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dreams to Dust written by Charles Ross Parke and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and medical observations. Parke returned east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua, continuing to record his experiences. Handsomely produced, but with space-wasting margins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book California Gold Rush written by Charles Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1983-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary of a Forty niner written by Chauncey L. Canfield and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Download or read book The California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N McKinstry 1850 1852 written by Byron Nathan McKinstry and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Gold Rush written by Charles H. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seeds of Hope written by Kristiana Gregory and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
Download or read book Thomas Edwin Mills California Gold Rush Diary written by Thomas Edwin Mills and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of a manuscript diary of Thomas Edwin Mills describing his 1852 journey from Dunbarton, New Hampshire, to San Francisco, California, by way of Nicaragua, as well as his experiences as a gold miner in Marysville and Nevada City, California, during the California Gold Rush. The journal spans the period from January to November 1852, with more detailed entries documenting the months preceding and during his journey to California followed by sparser entries from his time as a gold miner, which indicate days he spent on his claim and amounts of gold mined. Mills traveled to California via Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company, which capitalized on the gold discoveries in California by transporting immigrants between New York City and San Francisco. The Accessory Transit Company, which transported nearly 90,000 people between 1851 and 1856, held complete control over a route through Nicaragua, which relied on a combination of coaches and steamers to ferry customers from the Atlantic to the Pacific. On the Atlantic Coast, travelers would arrive at the town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, then proceed by steamer up the San Juan River to the east shore of Lake Nicaragua. Here, another steamer waited to ferry them across the lake to Rivas. A stage at Rivas would carry them across the 12-mile strip between the lake and the Pacific Coast, where a Vanderbilt steamer would carry them north to San Francisco. Mills boarded one of the Vanderbilt steamers in New York City on March 16, 1852. Arriving at San Juan del Norte, which he refers to by the British colonial name of Greytown, Mills remarks on the city's inhabitants, drunkenness and quarreling of passengers and the ship's captain, and local flora and fauna. Upon reaching the Pacific Coast, Mills boarded the steamer Independence for San Francisco. Mills describes how the ship met rough waters as it entered the Gulf of California, and two of the passengers died. After arriving in San Francisco on April 10, Mills traveled on to Sacramento two days later via the steamer New World; he first went to Marysville on April 13, and finding few mining opportunities there, headed to Nevada City the next day. At Nevada City and Deer Creek, he describes working on a claim with Wallace Caldwell, also of New Hampshire, along with a few other men. The end of the diary contains Mills's tallies of the weekly amounts of gold the men mined and divided among themselves during this time, as well as grocery bills and supply lists.
Download or read book The Diary of a Forty niner written by Chauncey L. Canfield and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Download or read book The Diary of Johann August Sutter written by Johann August Sutter and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Download or read book Overland to California with the Pioneer Line written by Bernard Joseph Reid and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold seekers written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Rush Diary written by Thomas D. Clark and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
