Download or read book The Golden Highway 19th century California including Amador Calaveras Tuolumne Mariposa including Yosemite and Madera Counties written by and published by Nineteenth Century Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Highway 19th century northern California including El Dorado Placer Nevada and Sierra counties written by and published by Nineteenth Century Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Hills of California A descriptive guide to the Mother Lode counties of the southern mines including Mariposa Tuolumne Calaveras and Amador written by Allan Masri and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Hills of California Volume 2 written by Allan Masri and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Gold Country Or Highway 49 Revisited written by Elliot H Koeppel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Trail written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States. It set in motion the great movement west that began almost immediately with the first commercial overland expedition funded by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and would continue with the establishment of the Oregon Trail and California Trail. The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most consequential migrations in history, and among the paths that blazed west, the California Trail was one of the most well-known. The trail was not a single road but a network of paths that began at several "jumping off" points. As it so happened, the paths were being formalized and coming into use right around the time gold was discovered in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country's power centers on the East Coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans that were near the region at the time, many of them were Army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico's independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier. At the same time, the journey itself was fraught with risk. It's easy for people with modern transportation to comfortably reminisce about the West, but many pioneers discovered that the traveling came with various kinds of obstacles and danger, including bitter weather, potentially deadly illnesses, and hostile Native Americans, not to mention an unforgiving landscape that famous American explorer Stephen Long deemed "unfit for human habitation." 19th century Americans were all too happy and eager for the transcontinental railroad to help speed their passage west and render overland paths obsolete. One of the main reasons people yearned for new forms of transportation was because of the most notorious and tragic disaster in the history of westward travel. While people still romanticize the Wild West, many Americans are also familiar with the fate of the Donner Party, a group of 87-90 people heading for California who met with disaster in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter of 1846-1847. The party knew the journey would take months, but early snowfalls in the mountains left dozens of people trapped in snow drifts that measured several feet, stranding them in a manner that made it virtually impossible for them to go any further for several weeks. The plight of the Donner Party made news across the nation, even before the surviving members were rescued and brought to safety, and by the time the doomed expedition was over, less than 50 of them made it to California. As writer Ethan Rarick summed it up, "more than the gleaming heroism or sullied villainy, the Donner Party is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous." The California Trail: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Routes that Led Americans to the Golden State examines how the various paths were forged, the people most responsible for them, and the most famous events associated with the trail's history. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the California Trail like never before.
Download or read book The Golden Corridor written by Jody Hornor and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Call of Gold written by Newell D. Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recreational Travel Study to Five County Areas written by California. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mariposa Indian War 1850 1851 written by Robert Eccleston and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second published volume of the diaries of Robert Eccleston. The first appeared under the title 'Overland to California on the southwestern trail, 1829', edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes ... "
Download or read book A Golden Highway written by Carl Burgess Glasscock and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California s Gold Rush Country written by Leslie A. Kelly and published by Gem Guides Book Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sesquicentennial commemoration discovery of gold by Marshall at Sutter's Mill, January 24, 1848. First ever coffee table book about California's gold rush area. Scenic photography depicts almost every historic building, landmark & site that remains from California's gold rush. California will heavily promote Gold Rush Discovery to Statehood Sesquicentennial 1998 through 2000. CALIFORNIA'S GOLD RUSH COUNTRY covers this period in detail. Fully indexed. Broad range of interest for history buffs, descendants of 49ers from across USA or anyone interested in California. Includes picture first nugget Sutter's Mill replica at Coloma, Sutter's Fort in Sacramento; gold rush towns of Mariposa, Hornitos, Coulterville, Jamestown, Sonora, Columbia, Angels Camp, Murphys, Mokelumne Hill, Jackson, Sutter Creek, Placerville, Coloma, Auburn, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Downieville, Marysville, Oroville & Weaverville & more. Segment on 49ers, California Trail & Panama Crossing. 9" X 12" vertical, 234 pages, foldout, 494 current color, 25 historic pictures. Kelly has illustrated Laura Ingalls Wilder Country (HarperCollins) & America's Amish Country. Trade discounts, STOP, Libraries 10% discount with payment. Les Kelly Publications, 15802 Springdale Street, Suite 14, Huntingdon Beach, CA 92649-1765, (714) 846-0437; FAX (714) 846-8858.
Download or read book My California Gold Rush Pioneers written by Sue Canavan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well documented collection of personal stories of adventure and tragedy begins with my earliest California ancestors who were some of the first of the 49er families to settle in Sonora during California's Gold Rush. The McQuades left Australia on a long, perilous sea journey with two small children. Bill Price of Kentucky, 18 when he joined a wagon train, barely survived the harrowing trip over the Sierras taking some of the first cattle to Sonora. He would marry Polly McQuade and their stories and those of their eight children, show what drama can occur in ordinary families; an out of wedlock family of the county sheriff, a miner who came home from Nome with enough gold to purchase the largest cattle ranch in the county, and a murder across from City Hall. There was tragedy, also, including three family suicides. The first and most devastating for the family was Polly's drowning when Genie, her youngest child, was five. Genie was my troubled grandmother and I set out to find her backstory. I was immediately led to the Gold Rush that brought her parents together. I saw how the time and place affected them and the effect they had on town and county. This was never intended to be a book but the stories piled upon stories. Genie's is the last chapter.
Download or read book Traveling California s Gold Rush Country written by Leslie A. Kelly and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Californias Sierras where 49ers struck it rich Information on attractions activities and vistor amenities along Z99 the histrory of the region
Download or read book The Big Oak Flat Road written by Irene Dakin Paden and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
