Author: Marilyn Joyce Van Schaack
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Charles Peters
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Q. David Bowers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780943161877
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1055

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Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834062
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Collects legends of buried treasure in California, including the lost San Miguel treasure, the canyon of lost gold, and the lost Dutch Oven mine.

Author: Charles Peters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426300400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The author uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848. Full color.

Author: Charles Laudier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Catherine E. Chambers
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816745562
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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In California in 1848 two brothers helping to build a sawmill for John Sutter witness the discovery of gold and decide to stake out a claim for themselves.

Author: Frank Baumgarder
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480886777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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When gold was found in Northern California, news of it spread like a wildfire during the spring and summer of 1848. At first, most people thought the reports were too good to be true, but as weeks and months flew by, they heard about more people striking it rich – and imaginations started to run wild. Tens of thousands of people started to dream about gold, and some of them left everything they knew to make the journey to California. It didn’t matter if you were black, white or brown – anyone could go. Even people in Central and South America, Australia, China, and Western Europe heard about the gold and made the journey. By 1855, hundreds of thousands of people had converged on California. In this study, the author shares diary entries from gold seekers, painting a detailed portrait of the frenzy that overtook the world, the lives of the miners, and how the move West changed the fabric of a nation. Without the dreams, hard work, and dedication of the miners who moved West, the United States of America would not be what it is today.

Author: Charles Peters
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781518628139
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work in this important re-issue of "The Autobiography of Charles Peters: The Good Luck Days of Placer Mining in the 1850's." It was first published in 1915, and later reprinted under the title of "California Golden Treasures," but few copies remain available today. In 1915, Charles Peters was "the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in ... the days of '49." He was born in Portugal in 1825, first visited California in 1846 as a merchant seaman and returned three years later to seek gold at Columbia, Jackson Creek, and Mokelumne Hill. "California Golden Treasures" is the memoir of his life through the 1850s, followed by a series of "Good Luck" stories, miscellaneous tales of the mining camps, a few of which seem to be credited to Peters, although most were actually the work of another author, drawn from many sources. Also included are many historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.