Golden Dreams: True Stories of Adventure in the California Gold Rush, Paperback - Frank Baumgarder

Reducere. When gold was found in Northern California, news of it spread like a wildfire during the spring and summer of 1848. At first, most people thought t...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore what daily life was like for the miners and the methods they used to search for gold.Even before the first glorious ring of the ...

Reducere. Learn how prospectors mined for gold, what life was like in mining camps, and much more. In 1848, gold was discovered in a California river, kickin...

DescriptionDid you know that an estimated 5, 000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black histor...

Reducere. The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social histor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith Halliday"She's just a girl " shouted Windy Bill. When Aurore hears these words, she knows notorious Alaskan bandit So...

Reducere. When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, -It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive...

Reducere. YOU are a New Englander with a bad case of gold fever. Gold has been discovered in California, and you want to go claim some for yourself. Will you...

Reducere. The long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These men are work...

Reducere. After gold was discovered in California in 1848, thousands of people rushed there to strike it rich. They faced tough choices at every turn. Now th...

DescriptionThe long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These m...

Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. Imagine you live in a self-contained village where your parents and their parents and all your forebears from the beginning of time have lived. Ima...

DescriptionWhere do we turn when work is draining, a friend lets us down, or we can't take any more news stories or political controversies? We tur...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of California, then keep reading...Three manuscripts in one book: History of California: A Captivat...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

Publisher: Outlook Words & ArtAuthor(s): David ZiebartNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 258 x 167 x 8Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. DescriptionA narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans ...

Reducere. The 1849 Gold Rush lives today throughout Northern California, from the name of a San Francisco football team to the many small towns -- including ...

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

Reducere. Liza Petrov's entire life has been about skating and winning her sport's top prize - Olympic gold. She's stayed sheltered inside her bubble, not da...

Reducere. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers--and fortune hunters--than...

Reducere. Ava is an American Avocet, a breed of shorebird who leaves her home at the Laguna Madre and travels 1, 000 miles to stay for a season at the larges...

Reducere. Kayaking Adventures in Beautiful British Columbia is a collection of true, wilderness adventure stories by renowned author Jennifer Hellings. Join ...

DescriptionYou're in the middle of the Gold Rush, pioneer--and you are headed West on the Oregon Trail with hopes to strike it rich in this choose-...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing fo...

This novella sized book is based on the script and songs from the successful stage show 'Alice The Musical'. It is a modern twist on the much loved...

A haunting and exquisitely-observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency RoomPublisher: Har...

DescriptionYou're in the middle of the Gold Rush, pioneer--and you are headed West on the Oregon Trail with hopes to strike it rich in this choose-...

A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Perfect for new readers. Discover the magic!

Reducere. It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the state's sto...

Reducere. Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of infor...

Travelling the world is an exhilarating, eye-opening, life-affirming experience. But it can also be scary to even think about. There are language b...

Reducere. Step across the threshold of a haunted hotel in California's renowned Gold Country and encounter phantom figures of yesteryear. Wispy apparitions o...

Reducere. In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This souther...

Reducere. Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of th...

Reducere. Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, ...

An unsurpassed surge of humanityIn words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminders of 21 Victorian Gold Rush...

Professor Gett and his teams of vets return to Bowdleflodeland for more exciting adventures! An ongoing series of fantasy stories linking Children'...