California Gold Camps

California Gold Camps

Author: Erwin G. Gudde

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 0520261445

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Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.


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Download or read book California Gold Camps written by Erwin G. Gudde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.


California Gold Camps

California Gold Camps

Author: Gudde/Gudde

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780520352469

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Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.


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Download or read book California Gold Camps written by Gudde/Gudde and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.


Roaring Camp

Roaring Camp

Author: Susan Lee Johnson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780393320992

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Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.


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Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.


California Gold Camps

California Gold Camps

Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde

Publisher:

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 9780520025721

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Identifies, locates, and describes hundreds of productive and historically interesting California sites where gold was found, washed, and mined in the two decades following the 1848 Sutter's Mill discovery


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Download or read book California Gold Camps written by Erwin Gustav Gudde and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies, locates, and describes hundreds of productive and historically interesting California sites where gold was found, washed, and mined in the two decades following the 1848 Sutter's Mill discovery


Story of the California Gold Rush Coloring Book

Story of the California Gold Rush Coloring Book

Author: Peter F. Copeland

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1988-12-01

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0486258149

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Forty scenes: Sutter's Mill, mining camps and boomtowns, prospectors panning for gold, old San Francisco, more. Informative captions.


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Download or read book Story of the California Gold Rush Coloring Book written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty scenes: Sutter's Mill, mining camps and boomtowns, prospectors panning for gold, old San Francisco, more. Informative captions.


The California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush

Author: Sabrina Crewe

Publisher: Gareth Stevens

Published: 2002-12-17

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836833935

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The California Gold Rush.


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Download or read book The California Gold Rush written by Sabrina Crewe and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Gold Rush.


They Saw the Elephant

They Saw the Elephant

Author: JoAnn Levy

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0806189959

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"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle


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Download or read book They Saw the Elephant written by JoAnn Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle


Those Wild and Lusty Gold Camps

Those Wild and Lusty Gold Camps

Author: Alton Pryor

Publisher: Stagecoach Pub

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780966005349

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Mark Twain observed that to write of the gold rush period and ignore its carnage would be like writing of Mormonism without referring to polygamy. A good example is the story of a mob in one California gold camp that hanged a man for horse stealing. It was found after the handing that the man was innocent. The vigilante mob sent a messenger to break the news to the victim's widow. "We hanged him for stealing a horse," he told her, "but come to find out, he didn't do it, so I guess the joke's on us." All gold camps weren't' so callous, but most of them were exciting.


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Download or read book Those Wild and Lusty Gold Camps written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain observed that to write of the gold rush period and ignore its carnage would be like writing of Mormonism without referring to polygamy. A good example is the story of a mob in one California gold camp that hanged a man for horse stealing. It was found after the handing that the man was innocent. The vigilante mob sent a messenger to break the news to the victim's widow. "We hanged him for stealing a horse," he told her, "but come to find out, he didn't do it, so I guess the joke's on us." All gold camps weren't' so callous, but most of them were exciting.


A California Gold Rush History

A California Gold Rush History

Author: Q. David Bowers

Publisher:

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 1055

ISBN-13: 9780943161877

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Roaring Camp

Roaring Camp

Author: Susan Lee Johnson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780393048124

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Explore the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills around Stockton through snapshots of prose that enter the encampments of some of the pioneers who forged ahead out West. 15 photos and one map.


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Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills around Stockton through snapshots of prose that enter the encampments of some of the pioneers who forged ahead out West. 15 photos and one map.