Author: Charles D. Ferguson
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Ferguson, from Aurora, Ohio, described his travel overland to California in 1850 and mining in the Chico area. In 1852 moved to Australia for more gold mining. In 1883 he returned to Chico.
Author: Gregory Blake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922132055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle, is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent gold miners at the Eureka lead on the Ballarat Gold Diggings. The fighting was intense, the carnage appalling and the political consequences of the affair profound. This book, for the first time, examines in great detail the actual military events that unfolded during the twenty minutes of deadly fighting at Eureka.
Author: Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Author: William Bonner
Publisher: Laissez Faire Books
ISBN: 098354140X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: Matthew S. Luckett
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622325X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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2021 Nebraska Book Award Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four Plains groups—American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers—Matthew S. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and shows that horse stealing transformed plains culture and settlement in fundamental and surprising ways. From Lakota and Cheyenne horse raids to rustling gangs in the Sandhills, horse theft was widespread and devastating across the region. The horse’s critical importance in both Native and white societies meant that horse stealing destabilized communities and jeopardized the peace throughout the plains, instigating massacres and murders and causing people to act furiously in defense of their most expensive, most important, and most beloved property. But as it became increasingly clear that no one legal or military institution could fully control it, would-be victims desperately sought a solution that would spare their farms and families from the calamitous loss of a horse. For some, that solution was violence. Never Caught Twice shows how the story of horse stealing across western Nebraska and the Great Plains was in many ways the story of the old West itself.
Author: Jenny Bourne Wahl
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815330868
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: University of Utah. Library. Tillman D. Johnson Collection
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Category : U.S., Western States
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Gary F. Kurutz
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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