Mining Camps of Placer County
Title | Mining Camps of Placer County PDF eBook |
Author | Carmel Barry-Schweyer |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738529509 |
Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name--the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel--to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of "Gold on the American River!" in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims "panned out," thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley. Some camps disappeared along with the easy placer gold; others found new methods to extract gold deposited deep in quartz veins or underground and developed into stable towns that still stand. Sometimes washing whole hillsides into rivers, hydraulic mining was outlawed in the 1880s, but the colorful characters and tall tales of the Gold Rush live on.
Mining Camps of Placer County
Title | Mining Camps of Placer County PDF eBook |
Author | Carmel Barry-Schweyei |
Publisher | Arcadia Library Editions |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2004-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781531615802 |
Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name--the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel--to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of "Gold on the American River!" in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims "panned out," thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley. Some camps disappeared along with the easy placer gold; others found new methods to extract gold deposited deep in quartz veins or underground and developed into stable towns that still stand. Sometimes washing whole hillsides into rivers, hydraulic mining was outlawed in the 1880s, but the colorful characters and tall tales of the Gold Rush live on.
Placer County's Own Mining Story
Title | Placer County's Own Mining Story PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard M. Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Mineral industries |
ISBN |
California Gold Camps
Title | California Gold Camps PDF eBook |
Author | Erwin G. Gudde |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 2009-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520261445 |
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.
Life in the Mining Camps of the Yuba River Valley
Title | Life in the Mining Camps of the Yuba River Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Quincy Adams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1931 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
Mining Camps
Title | Mining Camps PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Howard Shinn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
The History of Gold Mining in California, 1850-60
Title | The History of Gold Mining in California, 1850-60 PDF eBook |
Author | Hayward C. Chaplin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |