Author: Elisha Douglass Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dreams to Dust
Author: Charles Ross Parke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
One of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and medical observations. Parke returned east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua, continuing to record his experiences. Handsomely produced, but with space-wasting margins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
One of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and medical observations. Parke returned east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua, continuing to record his experiences. Handsomely produced, but with space-wasting margins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Seeds of Hope
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515323228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515323228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."
Gold Rush Diary
Author: Elisha Douglass Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gold Rush Diary
Author: Thomas D. Clark
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188253
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188253
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
The Gold Rush Diary of Ram¢n Gil Navarro
Author: Ram¢n Gil Navarro
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803233430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Navarro encountered people from all over the world brought together in a society marked by racial and ethnic intolerance, swift and cruel justice, and great hardships. It was a world of contrasts, where the roughest of the rough lived in close proximity to extremely refined cultural circles."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803233430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Navarro encountered people from all over the world brought together in a society marked by racial and ethnic intolerance, swift and cruel justice, and great hardships. It was a world of contrasts, where the roughest of the rough lived in close proximity to extremely refined cultural circles."--BOOK JACKET.
California Gold Rush
Author: Charles Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871950321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871950321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Gold Rush: The Overland Diary of Samuel A. Lane, 1850
Author: Samuel A. Lane
Publisher: Summit County Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Overland diary of Samuel A. Lane from Summit County, Ohio to the gold fields of California in 1850.
Publisher: Summit County Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Overland diary of Samuel A. Lane from Summit County, Ohio to the gold fields of California in 1850.
The World Rushed In
Author: J. S. Holliday
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806181214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806181214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
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.
The California Gold Rush Diary of a German Sailor
Author: Adolphus Windeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Gold Rush Diary of Ramón Gil Navarro
Author: Ramón Gil Navarro
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Navarro's diary tells of his plans for prospecting in California, his investments, and his journey from Chile to California with 120 workers. He specifically addresses the racial and ethnic intolerance he found there, and describes the harassment of Latino workers by Anglo miners. Appendixes include a chronology of Navarro's life and a glossary of key persons mentioned in the text. Ten pages of illustrations are also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Navarro's diary tells of his plans for prospecting in California, his investments, and his journey from Chile to California with 120 workers. He specifically addresses the racial and ethnic intolerance he found there, and describes the harassment of Latino workers by Anglo miners. Appendixes include a chronology of Navarro's life and a glossary of key persons mentioned in the text. Ten pages of illustrations are also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR