The World Rushed in : The California Gold Rush Experience

J S Holliday

ISBN 10: 080613464X / ISBN 13: 9780806134642

Editore: University Of Oklahoma Press Dez 2002, 2002

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Neuware - When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, 'It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.' Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, 'It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.'Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to 'strike it rich' in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama.In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the 'gold rush experience' as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.

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• Titolo: The World Rushed in : The California Gold Rush Experience
• Editore: University Of Oklahoma Press Dez 2002
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080613464X
• ISBN 13: 9780806134642
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 228 L x 151 A x 37 P (millimetri) 228 millimetri di larghezza per 151 millimetri di altezza per 37 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 794 grammi

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A thorough, exhaustively researched history of the California Gold Rush retraces the monumental movement of more than thirty thousand fortune seekers who headed west to find gold in the 1840s. Reprint. (History)

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When "The World Rushed In" was first published in 1981, the "Washington Post" predicted, It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush. Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the "San Francisco Examiner" noted, It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it. Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to strike it rich in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama.In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the gold rush experience as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history."