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Book California Gold Rush Ship Log  1849 1850

Download or read book California Gold Rush Ship Log 1849 1850 written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The California Gold Rush Fleet

Download or read book The California Gold Rush Fleet written by John Bartlett Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Frenchman in the Gold Rush

Download or read book A Frenchman in the Gold Rush written by Ernest de Massey and published by San Francisco, California historical society. This book was released on 1927 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest de Massey was the younger son of a well-to-do French family that sailed to America and the Gold Rush in the spring of 1849. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he lived until his return to Europe in 1857. A Frenchman in the gold rush (1927) is a translation of de Massey's journal covering his voyage to California, gold mining on the Trinity River, 1850, and visits to San José, Santa Cruz, and San Juan Bautista; and his career as a San Francisco businessman and journalist, 1850-1851.

Book Dreams to Dust

Download or read book Dreams to Dust written by Charles Ross Parke and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 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

Book The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet

Download or read book The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet written by John Bartlett Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To California by Sea

Download or read book To California by Sea written by James P. Delgado and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He explores the powerful impact of the Gold Rush on maritime trade along the Pacific coast and throughout the world.

Book A Gold Rush Voyage on the Bark Orion from Boston Around Cape Horn to San Francisco  1849 1850

Download or read book A Gold Rush Voyage on the Bark Orion from Boston Around Cape Horn to San Francisco 1849 1850 written by Foster H. Jenkins and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Mission to Microchip

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Glass
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 0520288408
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book From Mission to Microchip written by Fred Glass and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workersÕ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. WhatÕs the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. From Mission to Microchip unearths the hidden stories of these people throughout CaliforniaÕs history. The difficult task of the stateÕs labor movement has been to overcome perceived barriers such as race, national origin, and language to unite newcomers and natives in their shared interest. As chronicled in this comprehensive history, workers have creatively used collective bargaining, politics, strikes, and varied organizing strategies to find common ground among CaliforniaÕs diverse communities and achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. This is an indispensible book for students and scholars of labor history and history of the West, as well as labor activists and organizers.Ê

Book Days of Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998-10-15
  • ISBN : 0520216598
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Days of Gold written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the news caused the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. This comprehensive history demonstrates how the Gold Rush touched the lives of families & communities everywhere in the U.S.

Book California

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Starr
  • Publisher : Modern Library
  • Release : 2007-03-13
  • ISBN : 081297753X
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco

Book California Gold Rush Voyages  1848 1849  Three Original Narratives

Download or read book California Gold Rush Voyages 1848 1849 Three Original Narratives written by John Edwin Pomfret and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mud  Blood  and Gold

Download or read book Mud Blood and Gold written by Rand Richards and published by Heritage House Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco in 1849 was a time and place like no other in American history. As word of the discovery of gold in California spread, people from all over the world descended on San Francisco--ground zero for the avalanche of humanity and goods pouring into the fabled El Dorado. There have been many books on the Gold Rush, but Mud, Blood, and Gold is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a 'you are there' immediacy author Rand Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, Richards chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.

Book Spreading the Word

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Thomas Stillson
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0803243251
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Spreading the Word written by Richard Thomas Stillson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.

Book Detour to the California Gold Rush

Download or read book Detour to the California Gold Rush written by Bob Ring and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gold Rush

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  • Author : John B. Goodman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book The Gold Rush written by John B. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.