The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience - Tapa blanda

Holliday, J. S.

 
9780806134642: The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
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ISBN 10: 080613464X ISBN 13: 9780806134642
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

J. S. Holliday is former Executive Director of the California Historical Society and of the Oakland Museum of California and Associate Professor of History at California State University at San Francisco, he is also the author of rush for Riches: Gold Fever & the Making of California.

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Editorial
University of Oklahoma Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
080613464X
ISBN 13 
9780806134642
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
578
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9780671255374: World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience

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ISBN 10:  0671255371 ISBN 13:  9780671255374
Editorial: Simon & Schuster, 1981
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