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J. S. Holliday "The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience."
It is a pioneering achievement in historical writing, at once a personal, intimate story of one man's search for wealth and the definitive account of the California gold rush. Building upon the copious journals of gold seeker William Swain and enlarging upon his experiences through the imaginative interweaving of his diaries with the letters of hundreds of other '49ers, J. S. Holliday gives the reader a compelling opportunity to be part of one of America's most exciting and important adventures.
Holliday captures the triumphs and tragedies of Swain and his compatriots in vivid, human terms, from the dangerous journey across the plains and mountains to the rugged mining camps of northern California. This is history at its very best.
In midsummer 1848 city and small-town newspapers in the United States told of political debate in Washington over a plan to prohibit the expansion of slavery into the West and specifically into the territories recently conquered from Mexico. Fearful of angering voters on both sides of the controversy, the candidates in the upcoming presidential election, Democrat Lewis Cass and Whig General Zachary Taylor, hero of the war with Mexico, avoided making any statements on the subject.
In early August a more interesting story began to appear. A St. Louis newspaper on the 8th printed part of an article brought overland from San Francisco, where it had appeared in the April 1 issue of the California Star. The news told of gold "collected at random and without any trouble" on the American River. A letter from California in the New York Herald, August 19, predicted "a Peruvian harvest of precious metals." Other major newspapers -- the Baltimore Sun, the New Orleans Daily Picayune -- printed similarly colorful letters and reports from "the gold regions." Editors across the country impatiently sought whatever news of California could be found. The New York Journal of Commerce ran a letter from the alcalde of Monterey which told of miners digging "eight to ten ounces a day." He concluded by characterizing the miners as "men who open a vein of gold just as coolly as you would a potato hill." On September 14 the Philadelphia North American printed another letter from the exuberant alcalde in which he boasted, "Your streams have minnows and ours are paved with gold.
Paperback. 1983.
Used book. Very minor creases on a couple of pages. Otherwise, like new inside.

Stan Bardzo dobry
Gatunek Historia
Język publikacji angielski
Tytuł The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
Autor J. S. Holliday
Epoka Historia XIX w. (1789-1914)
Nośnik książka papierowa
Okładka miękka
Rok wydania 1983
Waga produktu z opakowaniem jednostkowym 1.5 kg
Liczba stron 560
Szerokość produktu 15 cm
Wysokość produktu 24 cm
ISBN 067125538X
Wydanie Standardowe
Tematyka Narody, państwa, miasta
Zgłoś naruszenie zasad
Oferta: 1fd489c5-29d8-4375-8292-cfc1bce9d117

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