Download or read book Copies of Letters of the Gold Rush Period written by Edward Austin and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Letters of the Gold Rush Period written by Robert W. G. Vail and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Letters of the Gold Rush Period written by American Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Rush Letters written by Robert J. Boylan and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve letters from Boylan in California to his wife Margaret in Jackson Creek, Illinois; one letter from Boylan to his son, James. The collection documents Boylan's stay in California during the gold rush period, 1850 to 1853. It is clear from the letters that Boylan considered his California venture to be a short-term commitment with the goal of improving his economic situation so that he could return to his farm and family in Illinois. He recounts at length his involvement in mining, including the establishment of a quartz-mining operation along the Feather River as well as tradition river mining operations in Fresno County. He discusses life as a miner and relations between miners and the early residents of California, both Indians and Mexicans. A constant theme throughout is his yearning for home and his desire to "bid adieu a last adieu to this land of visionary golden dreams to again bask in the sunshine of home sweet home."
Download or read book Gold Rush Memoirs and Letters written by California and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection consists of typescript copies of memoirs and letters from the California gold rush, 1850-ca. 1929, written by Indiana residents from Tippecanoe, Orange, and Wayne Counties. Described are overland travel, gold mining, and California at the time of the gold rush.
Download or read book California Letters of the Gold Rush Period written by John Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 46 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 The Gold Rush Letters of E Allen Grosh and Hosea B Grosh written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them from San Francisco into the gold country and then over the Sierra into Nevada’s Gold Canyon, where they placer-mined for gold and discovered a deposit of silver. The letters they sent back to their family offer vivid commentaries on the turbulent western frontier, the diverse society of the Gold Rush camps, and the heartbreaking labor and frustration of mining. Their lively descriptions of Gold Canyon provide one of the earliest accounts of life in what would soon become the fabulously wealthy Comstock Mining District. The Groshes’ letters are rich in color and important historical details. Generously annotated and with an introduction that provides a context for the brothers’ career and the setting in which they tried to make their fortune, these documents powerfully depict the often harsh realities of Gold Rush life and society.
Download or read book A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush written by Franklin Agustus Buck and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Maine, Franklin Agustus Buck (1826-1909) was working in New York City when he heard of the gold strikes and set out for California in January 1849. A Yankee trader in the gold rush (1930) contains Buck's letters to his sister in Maine. They chronicle his first dozen years in the West: a voyage round the Horn to San Francisco; prospecting and storekeeping in various gold camps and the towns of Sacramento, Downieville, North Fork, Marysville, and Weaverville; and a trading voyage to Tahiti and Hawaii. Politics interest Buck, and he pays close attention to the issues in the 1852 election, local secessionist debate, and the impact of the Civil War. In the 1860s, Buck turns to agriculture, raising fruit and cattle at farms in Weaverville, Oakville, and Red Bluffs. Discoveries of silver lead him back to mining at Treasure City, Meadow Valley, and Pioche, Nevada.
Download or read book Letters of the Pike s Peak Gold Rush written by Libeus Barney and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines 1851 1852 written by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe and published by Heyday. This book was released on 1998 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer woman describes life near a northern California mining camp during the fabled "gold rush."
Download or read book They Saw the Elephant written by JoAnn Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book A Gold Rush Tragedy written by Lee E. Hollingsworth and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Gold Rush Tragedy" - A never before published firsthand account of gold rush life. Going to California in the 1850's was as dangerous as standing bare-assed in a nest of rattlers! Many travelers turned back, many only stayed a short time and went home... and some died. Most were sore disappointed to the outcomes. When George Hollingsworth and his brother B.S. set out from Missouri in 1850, leaving his wife and four children behind, he promised his time away would be worth it. His letters to Elizabeth describe dreams of a comfortable life -- if he could just endure the journey and stake his claim. George's story is one of many who sought to ease their suffering back home by striking gold in California. But why did they do it? What was the experience of crossing those rugged plains and mountains? And why did so many people return from California empty-handed, if they returned at all? This never before published account gives us a glimpse into the heart and mind of America in the 1800s -- into the brutal realities and the strength of character it took to face them head-on. "A Gold Rush Tragedy" will have you laugh, shake your head, and question life's decisions. George spent four years in California - mining, starting a ranchero, dabbling in commerce, carpentry, logging, and homesteading 100 acres in San Francisco trying to make a go of it. The author, Lee Hollingsworth, gives an entertaining and rich look at life through the eyes of George and numerous other diarists complete with over 140 pictures and images from an era long gone. "A Gold Rush Tragedy" is a must read for one of the largest migration of people across our country that set the stage for California and the nation's greatness.
Download or read book Letters of the Pike s Peak Gold Rush written by Libeus Barney and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters written by James W. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters transcribed in 1957 by Howard I. Becker from the originals of Peterson and Henry Van Der Spiegel relating to their separate voyages from New York to California and gold prospecting along the American River north of Sacramento (1849-1852). Peterson's letters are primarily to Isaac Schauber; Van Der Spiegel writes to his brother John and other family members. Brief biographies of these two men appear in the introduction.
Download or read book Last Nuggets from the California Gold Rush 1849 written by Robert W. Blew and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colorado Gold Rush Contemporary Letters and Reports 1858 1859 written by LeRoy R. Hafen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contemporary reports and letters reproduced here not only tell the general story of events, but they portray as well the feeling of the time and reflect the hopes and disappointments of the would-be miners and commonwealth founders. From these colorful and interesting records we gain a more adequate conception of the character and importance of this great stampede - one of the typical and outstanding gold rushes of Western history"--from Introduction.
