Download or read book Golden Dreams and Waking Realities written by William Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishman, William Shaw was in South Australia when he heard of the California gold rush, and he sailed across the Pacific from Adelaide in 1849. Golden dreams and waking realities (1851) describes that voyage, his visit to San Diego and his landing in San Francisco. Then follows an account of the long trip to the gold fields and details of life as a prospector in the international community of the camps. Leaving the mines for Stockton, Shaw is befriended by Mission Indians. Leaving Stockton for San Francisco, Shaw takes a series of odd jobs in the city before moving on the Mission of Dolores until the New Year, when he finds passage back to Australia, all the while recording the social life and business activities he saw. Next he records the changes observable in Hawaii on his return voyage, a visit to Samoa, and his reception on his landing at Sydney.
Download or read book Golden Dreams and Waking Realities written by William Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'This rather uppity Britisher produced one of the finest narratives of the Gold Rush' - Kurutz. Shaw, an Englishman, travelled to California from Australia on board the Mazeppa, the first ship to leave South Australia for the gold diggings. Shaw's descriptions of life in the mines are quite vivid, as per Kurutz: 'He witnessed a bloody battle between mining companies, discrimination against foreign miners, the horrible death of a fellow miner by an insect bite, and poor medical practice. He described in graphic detail the miners' horrendous living conditions, mining methods, and the day-to-day struggle for survival.' As Shaw writes in his preface, his work gives 'fresh evidences of the demoralizing effects of the California gold mania.' After his experiences in the mines he returned to San Francisco and worked for a time at Mission Dolores, and provides an excellent description of the venerable mission. Smith left San Francisco to return to Australia, and stopped at Hawaii, describing its business district, markets, and social life. He attended a performance of Shakespeare's RICHARD III at which Kamehameha III was present and where several Sydney emigrants behaved in a rowdy manner"--
Download or read book Bulletin written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eclectic Review written by Samuel Greatheed and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roaring Camp The Social World of the California Gold Rush written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-12-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.
Download or read book Gold Rush Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics—perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as “slickens”) produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierra, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush. “Seamlessly fuses academic rigor, original reporting and emotional intensity into one meditation on an era.... If the task of the historian is to be faithful to lost truths, then Noy's latest exploration succeeds on every level, and does so in a way that will keep readers wanting to dig deeper into the past.”—Scott Thomas Anderson, Sierra Lodestar “An original and lively look at all the usual suspects, plus bears, weather, women, Joaquín, disappointment and dissipation…. Exhaustively researched and highly entertaining.”—JoAnn Levy, author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Books written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Gold Valuer Being a Table for Ascertaining the Value of Gold written by James H. Watherston and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Valuer Being a Table for Ascertaining the Value of Gold as Naturally Produced Or Artificially Amalgamated Etc written by James Henry WATHERSTON and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fair Carew Or Husbands and Wives written by Carew (fair, fict.name.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by San Francisco (Calif.). Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express written by Haiming Liu and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Chinese Americans through the lens of food. From Canton Restaurant in 1849 to Panda Express today, Chinese food history in America spans over 150 years. Chinese 'Forty-niners' were mostly merchants and restaurateurs who migrated here not to dig gold but to do trade. Racism against the Chinese slowed down the growth of the Chinese restaurant business in the late 19th century, but it made a rebound in the format of chop suey. From 1900 to the 1960s, chop suey as imagined authentic Chinese food attracted numerous American customers including Jewish Americans as its collective fan. Then the real Chinese food such as Hunan, Sichuan or Shanghai cuisine replaced chop suey houses in the 1970s following the arrival of new Chinese immigrants after immigration reform in 1965. Those regional-flavored Chinese restaurants were brought in and established by immigrants from Taiwan rather than mainland China. As Chinese restaurants in America turned Chinese in flavor, P.F. Chang's and Panda Express rose fast in the 1990s to meet the need of constantly changing and often multi-ethnically blended eating habits of American customers. Chinese food in America is a fascinating history about both Chinese and Americans. Embedded in this history is the story of human migration, culinary tradition, racial politics, ethnic identity, cultural negotiation, Chinese Diaspora and transnational life, and Chinese cuisine as a global food. Though a scholarly work, this book aims at all readers who are interested in food history and culture"--Provided by publisher
Download or read book The British Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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