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Gold Rush American History:     more books (101)

The Trail of 1858: British Columbia's Gold Rush Past by Mark Forsythe, Greg Dickson, 2007-10-17 Bluewater Gold Rush/The Odyssey of a California Sea Urchin Diver by Tom Kendrick, 2006-10-22 Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson, 2001-01 Black Hills Gold Rush Towns (Images of America) by Jan Cerney, Roberta Sago, et all 2010-03-31 Gold Fever: America's First Gold Rush (Georgia History and Culture Series) by Ray Charles Rensi, H. David Williams, 1989-01 The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 by George Fetherling, 1997-11-08 Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years (Yale Western Americana Series) by Jean-Nicolas Perlot, 1998-11-10 Banking in the American West: From the Gold Rush to Deregulation by Lynne Pierson Doti, Larry Schweikart, 1991-12 Carolina Gold Rush by Bruce Roberts, 1972-06 Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush by Richard T. Stillson, 2008-05-01 The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Leonard L. Richards, 2008-02-12 Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series) They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by Jo Ann Levy, 1992-09 The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Kathryn Morse, 2010-03-15

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81. The Great American Gold Rush
    Timeline of the California gold rush.  
    http://www.acusd.edu/~jross/goldrush.html

82. California Whitewater River Rafting - White Water Rafting Trips - South Fork $65
    Whitewater rafting vacations and adventure river trips on the South Fork of the american river. Based in Coloma.  
    http://www.goldrushriver.com/
    
    Extractions: Calif. Whitewater click here for more information California whitewater rafting with Gold Rush Whitewater Rafting provides adventure river rafting trips on the South Fork of the American River, located in Coloma, California, for beginner and experienced whitewater rafters. We've got it all with our one and two day California whitewater rafting trips, private riverside camping, modern bathhouse and much more. /2 River trips start at only $65 per person Water rapids that our trained river guides will lead you through.We raft the South Fork of the American River, which is a class III+ river for beginner and experienced whitewater rafters on half day, full day, and two day river trips. Many feel that the excitement of discovering gold pales compared to the excitement of the whitewater action available on the American River today! As a Class III+ run, the South Fork offers a great combination of water ranging from gentle flows to challenging and technical whitewater. Our river trips meet at our private riverside camp in Coloma, California which is 2 hours from San Francisco and 45 minutes from Sacramento.

83. The American Experience/Gold Fever
    From P.B.S.'s The american Experience. This site provides information about the Klondike gold rush.  
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/gold/index.html

84. BLM California, Public Lands, Folsom Field Office, Dave Moore Nature Area
    Nature trails, many wheelchairaccessible, picnic area. Historic remnants from gold rush. Walking access to shaded swimming hole on the South Fork of the american River. (No boat launches.)  
    http://www.ca.blm.gov/folsom/dmna.html
    
    Extractions: One of the main features of the Dave Moore Nature Area is a loop trail about a mile long which goes from the parking lot trail head to the South Fork American River and back again passing through several habitat types. Nestled in the heart of Gold Rush Country, the trail is lined with remnants from nearly 150 years ago when Chinese laborers channeled creek water by hand with pick and shovel for gold mining. Tailing piles from the Gold Rush period blanket the area which lend to the characteristic landscape that makes this area so unique. About half of the trail is constructed to be fully accessible to people with wheelchairs, walkers and strollers. David Moore was born June 4, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee and died August 13, 2001 in Calistoga, California. He graduated from Calistoga High School in 1967. After graduation, he entered the Navy and served for a term of four years, then attended Humboldt State University where he graduated in 1975. For the next ten years, Moore was employed by the Bureau of Land Management as a Conservation Ranger. He was stricken with multiple sclerosis at age 35 and forced to retire in 1987. Moore was an avid outdoorsman who loved to hunt, fish, whitewater raft, and golf. His disability brought to his co-workers such an awareness of the struggle faced by disabled persons that they developed a nature area for the physically challenged along the South Fork of the American River near Coloma, California. On June 4, 1994, National Trails Day and Moore´s 46th birthday, the staff of the Folsom Field Office held a grand opening of the Nature Area, and dedicated it as the Dave Moore Nature Area.

85. CPL: The California Gold Rush
    american Heritage Dec 62627, 90-91; american Heritage Illustrated The Life Historyof the United States The Sweep Westward; The California gold rush;  
    http://commack.suffolk.lib.ny.us/goldrush.html

86. WileyEurope :: Gold Dust And Gunsmoke: Tales Of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters,
    Janus Adams The american West (Hardcover) Larry Schweikart, Bradley J. Birzer, USHistory, gold Dust and Gunsmoke Tales of gold rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen  
    http://www.wileyeurope.com/cda/product/0,,0471390186|au|2576,00.html

87. Homework Sites
    Built and maintained by the Los Angeles Public Library.Category Kids and Teens School Time Homework Help history. America's Library; american history; Black history; CaliforniaGold rush; California Mission Studies Association; Hispanic Heritage;  
    http://www.lapl.org/kidsweb/coolsites/homeworkhlp-0p.html

88. What Was The Gold Rush
    William Sound Region was the Klondike gold rush of 1897. An All american route tothe gold fields was by steamship companies as the All american route to the  
    http://www.alaska.net/~vldzmuse/whatwas.htm
    
    Extractions: There have been many gold rushes in the history of the United States. The two most famous are the 1849 in California and the Klondike Stampede in the the late 1890s in Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. The gold rush that affected Valdez and the Prince William Sound Region was the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. It began when the ships Excelsior and Portland reached their "lower 48" ports in July 1897, laden with gold. The stories spread like wildfire and people rushed to find riches beyond imagination. An All American route to the gold fields was desired. Valdez and a route over the Valdez Glacier were marketed by steamship companies as the "All American" route to the Klondike. Thus began Valdez's history as a transportation hub for interior Alaska. Unfortunately for many, by the time they reached the Klondike all the claims had been staked and they were forced to look elsewhere. Others decided not to attempt the arduous journey from the coast to the Interior and elected to find their fortunes closer to their ports of entry. This is the way many of the gold and copper mines in the Prince William Sound Region were found. Once a miner landed in Valdez, they had to pack their 1500 pounds of gear to the foot of Valdez Glacier to begin their ascent. The Glacier rose approximately 4,800 feet and it was a twenty mile hike to the top. Miners were victims of storms, avalanches, crevasses; all which claimed some of the intrepid souls. Provisions had to be packed up the Glacier in stages. The miners had arrived in Valdez only to find their trips had only really just begun. Some chose not to go further and either stayed in the Prince William Sound Region or returned home.

89. The Age Of Gold By H. W. Brands - News
    HW Brands H. W. Brands is currently Distinguished Professor of history and holderof the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in american history at Texas A M.  
    http://www.theageofgold.com/news/

90. Author Dale L. Walker | Official Website | Award-winning History Books Of The Am
    Book reviews and information on the author.Category Arts Literature Genres Western Authors great compliment) and one of the many people assembled in this history of the goldRush. James Marshall, who first discovered gold in the american River in  
    http://www.readthewest.com/dalewalker.htm
    
    Extractions: No event of the 19th century West, excepting only the Civil War, galvanized the American public more than the California gold rush. In a five-year period (1848-1852), tens of thousands of hopeful argonauts made their way to the vast territory conquered in the U.S.-Mexican War where gold had been found in the sands of the Sacramento River. The Americans made their way to Eldorado by various routes, all of them arduous and dangerous: overland across the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, or across Southwestern desert country, even across northern Mexico; across the Isthmus of Panama a deadly, fever-ridden route thence to the California coast by sailing ship; or the grueling six-month voyage around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America to San Francisco, gateway to the goldfields.

91. 'American Dream' Built On Blocks Of Gold
    effect on the way americans viewed success, Texas A M University Professor of HistoryHW Brands The gold rush forever changed the american notion of  
    http://rev.tamu.edu/stories/02/081202-4.html
    
    Extractions: The notion of striking it rich, Brands explains, transformed the traditional Puritan ethic of hard work and gradual accumulation of property. Before the gold rush, most Americans subscribed to the view that with good character and hard work a modest amount of success could be achieved throughout the course of a lifetime, he notes. More importantly, if such an outcome wasn't achieved, it was a mark of poor character, a judgment of morality, Brands says.

92. Untitled Document
    towns . The California gold rush was a period unique to american historyand just one more way people sought the american Dream. . Top.  
    http://www.nps.gov/jeff/mus-miners.htm
    
    Extractions: The Miners frenzy seized my soul... piles of gold rose up before me...castles of marble...thousands of slaves bowing to my beck and call. In short I had a very violent attack of goldfever." J.H. Carson, miner. "Gold fever" gripped the United States and the world in 1848 as opportunity in the West once again called men to discovery. The rush started on the land of John Sutter, along the American River in California. Sutter employed a man named James Marshall In 1848, President James K. Polk supported rumors of gold in California in an address to congress by stating that officials of the government had verified its existence. By 1849, there was a mad rush to California. These gold seekers, who were generally young, single men, became known as forty-niners. People traveled by land and sea to reach California. A sea voyage from the eastern United States around Cape Horn to the west was approximately 15,000-17,000 miles and took six months. Some travelers sailed to Panama, crossed the isthmus on land and then sailed on to San Fransisco, a shorter but more disease-ridden route. Those who chose the overland route followed the Oregon Trail until it crossed the California Trail on the Western side of the Rocky Mountains. Many travelers discovered that by lightening their wagon load they could improve their speed. Soon trails were littered with possessions that caused the trail to resemble a junkyard.

93. The History Of The Gold Rush
    http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/history.htm
    
    Extractions: In the coastal regions settled Spaniards and Mexicans. The inland area was the domain of Indians and a few settlers who had been granted estates by the Mexican government. Among those settlers was Captain John Sutter, a Swiss, who had been fortunate enough to obtain a full 11 leagues of land (spanning 60 miles in lenght) in the Sacramento valley from Governor Alvarado of Mexico. Sutter began to build a fort, which was a stopping place and home for many foreigners and Americans who traveled to California. He was engaged in a varity of projects, including his cattle ranch, fur trade and trapping and the construction of an irrigation system. With the influx of immigrants over the years the communitiy around the fort grew rapidly. Lumber was much in demand and Captains Sutter agreed to supply the necessary capital for a communitiysawmill. The site chosen was some 45 miles northeast of the fort, located on the south fork of the American River in the town of Coloma. During the course of construction Sutter's carpenter, James Marshall, discovered a problem with tailrace on the mill. It was early in the morning of January 24, 1848 while checking the tailrace that Marshall noticed an object shining in a foot of ater at the bottom of a ditch. He reached down and picked it up, and his heart began to thump wildly as he realized he was holding a gold nugget.

94. North Georgia Gold Rush-1828
    About North Georgia recommends the book for anyone with an interest in thegold rush, Georgia history, or the Cherokee Removal. (Buy the book).  
    http://ngeorgia.com/history/goldrush.html
    
    Extractions: Few words in the English language create the fervor that the cry of "Gold" does in man. A driving force in the colonization of America, gold was the primary reason for Hernando De Soto to visit the North Georgia region in the early 1540's. Indians along the Chattahoochee River north of Atlanta routinely panned for gold and found significant amounts of the material. Spanish miners joined them and formed minor settlements that operated almost continuously until the early 1700's. Much has been written as to who discovered gold in Georgia and when. Mines operated illegally in Cherokee Territory for years, but the first contemporary reference to a gold mining operation in the state points to present-day White County (then Habersham County) in 1829. By then at least two mines had been constructed in the Nacoochee Valley and there are indications are they were in operation in late 1828. Most modern historians and the state of Georgia discount the story of Benjamin Parks discovering gold at Licklog ( Dahlonega After the Spanish were forced from Georgia, interest in gold died for a number of years, but mining continued off and on throughout 18th century and into the 19th century. As early as 1819 there is evidence that gold was being mined by whites near the Cherokee town of Sixes. Although people knew of the gold, Frank Logan "discovered" it in

95. Decades History Timelines - California Gold Rush
    After afirming that the material contained gold, Humphrey set off to the AmericanRiver to look for some He becomes the first full time miner of the gold rush.  
    http://www.decades.com/Timeline/n/100_769.htm
    
    Extractions: Initial rumblings Francisco Lopez discovers gold in San Francisquito Canyon while digging up some onions with a knife. This discovery only caused a "local" stir however, bringing in people from the nearby Pueblo of Los Angeles. An estimated $80,000 to $100,000 in gold was found in the ensuing months.

96. IU Lilly Library Overview Of The Collections United States History
    period of the Revolutionary War, the history of the resources for the study of theAmerican West with the Pacific Northwest, and on the California gold rush.  
    http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/overview/history_us.shtml
    
    Extractions: Home The American history collections in the Lilly Library begin with the first printing in Latin of the Columbus letter (Rome, 1493), and continue through the mid-20 th century. There are particularly good holdings covering Anglo-American relations leading to the American Revolution, the period of the Revolutionary War, the history of the United States Constitution, and the War of 1812. Three collections formed by Indiana alumni, Robert Spurrier Ellison (Class of 1900), George L. Harding (Class of 1915), and William Corr Service (Class of 1923), provide resources for the study of the American West with particular emphasis on overland narratives and diaries, on the Pacific Northwest, and on the California Gold Rush. The Lilly Library's collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, and newspapers relating to the life of Abraham Lincoln is quite extensive. Collections concerning more recent United States politics include the papers of Charles Fairbanks, Paul V. McNutt, Wendell Willkie, Charles Halleck, and Birch Bayh. The resources at the Lilly Library for the study of United States history are vast and varied, and interested researchers should inquire as to the Library's holdings in their particular area of study.

97. T3 Preservice Project Results
    California history Exploring the gold rush, Great Depression, and AmericanIndians in California University of the Pacific Fall 2001.  
    http://www.preservice.org/projectlab/cat_list.php?cid=16

98. Dale L. Walker
    L. Walker presents the complete, often gaudy, always fascinating story of the CaliforniaGold rush, the greatest mining bonanza in all of american history.  
    http://www.readwest.com/dalewalker.htm
    
    Extractions: Dale L. Walker Author of Pacific Destiny Dale L. Walker of El Paso, Texas, a freelance writer since 1960, is a biographer, historian, anthologist, newspaper book columnist, and editor, who specializes in Western American history, 19th and early 20th century journalism and war correspondence, military history, and Jack London studies. Eldorado: The California Gold Rush In Eldorado , award-winning historian Dale L. Walker presents the complete, often gaudy, always fascinating story of the California Gold Rush, the greatest mining bonanza in all of American history. The story ranges from the discovery by a New Jersey carpenter at a sawmill north of Sutter's Fort to the advent of large-scale hydraulic mining that spelled the ruination of the land and the end of the boom days when a Forty-niner with a pick and a pan found "colors" in a streambed and earned his wages-an ounce of raw gold a day. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW Hardcover: 384 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.82 x 9.70 x 6.18

99. Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories, Oakland Museum Of California.
    Features a wide variety of paintings and daguerreotype photos of goldminers and landscapes from the 19th century. Includes Fonseca's paintings. 1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, touching off the California gold rush. On the 150th series of exhibitions titled gold rush! California's Untold  
    http://www.museumca.org/goldrush
    
    Extractions: O n January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, touching off the California gold rush. On the 150th anniversary of Marshall's discovery, the Oakland Museum of California unveiled a series of exhibitions titled Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories. They are now closed at the Oakland Museum. To find where the shows are currently on display see: Get Involved Problems? Questions?

100. California's Gold Rush Country: Historic Sites & Spectacular Scenery
     Visit Show Me The gold sm for gold rush Country Traveland gold Panning Incentive Travel Programs  
     http://www.goldrush1849.com/

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