Author: M. D. James Lawrence Tyson
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical practice and his hospital at Cold Spring, where his patients included a number of Oregonians. Tyson closes his hospital at the end of the summer, sailing from San Francisco as a ship's physician, crossing the Isthmus and landing in the United States in December 1849. His diary pays special attention to miners' health and working conditions
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Pages : 632
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Pages : 570
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Pages : 578
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Author: Charles Fenno Hoffman
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Author: Andrew Wight
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: Robert Ernest Cowan
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Author: H. W. Brands
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385720882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.
