Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: gold, rush, california, tales, fever
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1426300409
ISBN-13: 9781426300400
Catch the fever! Gold fever swept the nation—and the world—in 1848 when carpenter James Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River near John Sutter’s mill. As word spread of gold in California, the news set off a westward stampede. Fortune seekers and adventurers poured into California by land and sea, wild with excitement and expectation. Rosalyn Schanzer’s engaging and humorous book tells the story of these prospectors in their own words. Schanzer has gathered her favorite quotes from journals and letters written by the forty-niners to recount the discovery of go
Author: H.W. Brands
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: gold, dream, american, rush, california, new
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2003-10-14
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0385720882
ISBN-13: 9780385720885
“I have found it.” These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California’s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth. It accelerated America’s imperial expansion and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. And, as H. W. Brands makes clear in this spellbinding book, the Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.”Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of advent
Author: Michael J. Kosare
Publisher: Addicus Book
Keywords: gold, wealth, build, investing, abcs, protect
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1886039720
ISBN-13: 9781886039728
Beginning investors will find thorough guidelines for making good decisions in this guide to private gold ownership. Emphasis is placed on the asset-preservation qualities of gold at a time when investor uncertainty about the economy and recent investment scandals have led many to seek asset diversification. The economic and political trends driving gold marketing are detailed, as are the reasons why gold plays an important role in millions of investment portfolios worldwide—as both a hedge and an investment for capital gain. Topics examined include understanding gold’s role in combati
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: gold, nation, american, california, days, rush
Number of Pages: 569
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520216598
ISBN-13: 9780520216594
On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession--soon called 49ers--included the wealthy and the poor from every state and territory, including slaves brought by their owners. In numbers, they represented the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic.In this first comprehensive history of the Gold Rush, Malcolm J. Rohrbough demonstrates that
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: gold, nation, american, california, days, rush
Number of Pages: 569
Published: 1997-04-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520206223
ISBN-13: 9780520206229
On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession soon called 49ersincluded the wealthy and the poor from every state and territory, including slaves brought by their owners. In numbers, they represented the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic. In this first comprehensive history of the Gold Rush, Malcolm J. Roh
Author: Nancy Roberts
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: gold, california, carolina, ghosts, seekers, legends
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1989-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0872496589
ISBN-13: 9780872496583
Author: Ronald Eisler
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: gold, mining, perspectives, ecotoxicological, health, biogeochemical
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-10-28
List price: $162.95
ISBN-10: 0849328985
ISBN-13: 9780849328985
Despite the esteemed nature of gold in society, evidence of adverse ecotoxicological effects and risk to human health in various mining and extraction techniques has generated increasing interest in the biological and environmental implications of gold. Biogeochemical, Health, and Ecotoxicological Perspectives on Gold and Gold Mining is the first comprehensive book to evaluate the effect of gold production and use on human health as well as the environmental impact of gold mining and extraction. Dr. Ronald Eisler, a well-known senior research biologist and expert in the chemical and biological
