Gold Dust The California Gold Rush and the Forty-Niners

Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women - the forty-niners - caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feelings and thoughts of the people who participated in it.

Zusammenfassung

Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women – the forty-niners – caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feelings and thoughts of the people who participated in it.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Donald Dale Jackson, Jackson Donald Dale
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2023
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges
• EAN: 9781032598321
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3259832-1
• Anzahl Seiten: 318
• Serie: Routledge Revivals
• Themen: Black Rock Desert, Caravan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, California, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Economic history, San, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Donner Party, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Environmentalist thought and ideology, c 1840 to c 1849, Dead Man, Economic Anthropology, trinity river, settler colonial studies, Dense, Chagres River, Firemen, Above Ground, American frontier history, mining communities, Sierra Nevadas, devious, wagon trains, nineteenth-century migration, John Banks, Sutter’s Fort, Overland Trails, John Stone, social impact of gold rushes, personal narratives of prospectors, Alta California, Scott’s Bluff, Carson River, Southern Mines, Middle Fork, Gold Mania, Feather River