The land of gold; or, Three years in California

The land of gold; or, Three years in California
Title The land of gold; or, Three years in California PDF eBook
Author Walter Colton
Publisher Good Press
Pages 311
Release 2023-07-10
Genre History
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"The land of gold; or, Three years in California" by Walter Colton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Land of Golden Dreams

Land of Golden Dreams
Title Land of Golden Dreams PDF eBook
Author Peter John Blodgett
Publisher Huntington Library Press
Pages 156
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN

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"The year 2000 ... marks the sesquicentennial of California's statehood. California entered the Union on September 9, 1850--fewer than three years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's sawmill on January 24, 1848. Such a transformation in so short a span of time seems remarkable itself but not unanticipated, given the great interest shown by the English, French, Russians, and Americans during the 1830s and 1840s in exploiting Mexican California's abundant natural resources. Even before the discovery of gold, the Englishman Sir George Simpson wrote in 1847 that 'the English race, as I have already hinted, is doubtless destined to add this fair and fertile province to its possessions on this continent. ... The only doubt is, whether California is to fall to the British or the Americans.' Gold only hastened what some saw as inevitable. In contemplating California's fate, Simpson referred to what was 'destined' to happen. 'Manifest destiny' became the cliché of many American historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who saw the acquisition of California as both the logical and appropriate conclusion to the conquest of North America begun two centuries earlier by the first European colonists. The Huntington's exhibition Land of Golden Dreams takes a broader look at the impact of the Gold Rush on California, the nation, and the world. Like other contemporary historians, Peter Blodgett, curator of Western American historical manuscripts, examines the complete social fabric of California in the decade 1848-58 and its radical transformation, catalyzed by gold discovery, from 'a captured Mexican province to the thirty-first state of the American Union.' He notes that 'the events of the Gold Rush would remain a touchstone for generations of later Californians.' "--From Foreword, page 7.

The Land of Gold Or

The Land of Gold Or
Title The Land of Gold Or PDF eBook
Author Walter Colton
Publisher
Pages 476
Release 1860
Genre California
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Bloody Bay

Bloody Bay
Title Bloody Bay PDF eBook
Author Darren A.. Raspa
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 361
Release 2020
Genre History
ISBN 149622390X

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Bloody Bay follows the history of policing in nineteenth-century San Francisco, exploring the city's culture of popular justice, its multi-ethnic environment, and how the unique relationships formed between informal and formal policing created a more progressive policing environment than anywhere else in the nation.

The Dreamt Land

The Dreamt Land
Title The Dreamt Land PDF eBook
Author Mark Arax
Publisher Vintage
Pages 577
Release 2019-05-21
Genre Nature
ISBN 1101875216

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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.

California Gold Camps

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

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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.

Bibliotheca Americana

Bibliotheca Americana
Title Bibliotheca Americana PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 356
Release 1886
Genre America
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