Eldorado The California Gold Rush, 1848-1852

Name: Eldorado The California Gold Rush, 1848-1852
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ISBN: 9780312878320

ISBN-10: 031287832X

ISBN-13: 9780312878320

Edition: Revised

Authors: Dale L. Walker, Dale Walker

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With the exception of the call to arms in the North and South in 1861, no moment of nineteenth-century America was more electrifying than the shout, "GOLD ON THE AMERICAN RIVER!" first heard in San Francisco in the spring of 1848. Within a year, tens of thousands of dreamers from around the world were making their way to the vast territory on the Pacific. All routes to San Francisco, gateway to the goldfields, were lengthy---six months on average---arduous, and dangerous: over land from the Missouri frontier and across the Rockies and Sierra Nevada; through the fever jungles of Panama to the Pacific; or 15,000 sea miles around Cape Horn. In Eldorado, Dale L. Walker presents the full,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Publication date: 12/8/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Maps


Prologue



Empresario



A Wandering Lord of Jeopardy



The Potentate of the Sacramento



The Servant of the Three Masters



Discovery



A Notional Kind of Man



The Sordid Cry



Ned Beale's Ride



The '48ers



Journeys



Doubling the Cape



The Isthmus


Henry Huntington



The Greenhorn Trail


The Aerial Locomotive


Seeing the Elephant



Lord and Lady


Israel Lord's Ode to an Ox


The Rough Diamond



Eldorado



Gateway



The Diggings


Roaring Camps



Paydirt


The Miner's Ten Commandments



A Vagrant Life



Departures



Dame Shirley's World


Levi's and Studebakers



Sodom-by-the-Sea


Schliemann's Gold



Departures


Sacajawea's Son & Others


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Sources


Index