Author: Daniel B. Woods
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Get Book Here
Book Description
Daniel B. Woods of Philadelphia sailed to California in February 1849, crossing Mexico to San Blas, and arriving in San Francisco in June. Sixteen months at the gold diggings (1851) recounts those travels as well as his experiences as a prospector in the Northern Mines on the American River and at Hart's Bar and other camps in the Southern Mines before starting home in November, 1850. His book offers an exceptionally realistic picture of the drudgery of mining and the business side of miners' companies.
Author: DANIEL B. WOODS.
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Get Book Here
Book Description
SIXTEEN MONTHS AT THE GOLD DIGGINGS by DANIEL B. WOODS is a firsthand account of life during the Gold Rush. Woods' vivid descriptions of the challenges, triumphs, and daily realities provide an authentic look at this historic period.
Author: Joseph Gaer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Daniel B. Woods
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Get Book Here
Book Description
"Sixteen months at the gold diggings" by Daniel B. Woods. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Daniel B Woods
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014440945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Get Book Here
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520217706
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Get Book Here
Book Description
A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.
Author: Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674276140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Get Book Here
Book Description
A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A surprising account of frontier law that challenges the image of the Wild West. In the absence of state authority, Gold Rush miners crafted effective government by the people—but not for all the people. Gold Rush California was a frontier on steroids: 1,500 miles from the nearest state, it had a constantly fluctuating population and no formal government. A hundred thousand single men came to the new territory from every corner of the nation with the sole aim of striking it rich and then returning home. The circumstances were ripe for chaos, but as Andrea McDowell shows, this new frontier was not nearly as wild as one would presume. Miners turned out to be experts at self-government, bringing about a flowering of American-style democracy—with all its promises and deficiencies. The Americans in California organized and ran meetings with an efficiency and attention to detail that amazed foreign observers. Hundreds of strangers met to adopt mining codes, decide claim disputes, run large-scale mining projects, and resist the dominance of companies financed by outside capital. Most notably, they held criminal trials on their own authority. But, mirroring the societies back east from which they came, frontiersmen drew the boundaries of their legal regime in racial terms. The ruling majority expelled foreign miners from the diggings and allowed their countrymen to massacre the local Native Americans. And as the new state of California consolidated, miners refused to surrender their self-endowed authority to make rules and execute criminals, presaging the don’t-tread-on-me attitudes of much of the contemporary American west. In We the Miners, Gold Rush California offers a well-documented test case of democratic self-government, illustrating how frontiersmen used meetings and the rules of parliamentary procedure to take the place of the state.
Author: Colton Storm
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Brian Roberts
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786093X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Get Book Here
Book Description
California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Get Book Here
Book Description
