Miwok Means People: The Life and Fate of the Native Inhabitants of the California Gold Rush Country, Paperback - Eugene L. Conrotto

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...

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

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. 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. Teleguac aka Chief Jose Jesus was one of California's na-tive freedom fighters. Living through an extremely turbulent period in time where everythi...

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. 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. 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Reducere. The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremoni...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

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

Reducere. "A HEALTH BOOK FOR THE PEOPLE. For these reasons I want everyone who is in search of health to read these pages carefully and thoughtfully, as they...

Reducere. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing--and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our b...

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionJOANN ROBERTSON'S GRANDFATHER MOVED TO THE YUKON in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed at that, but he did fall in love with t...

Reducere. Nestled at the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley, the city of Bakersfield is best known for farming, oil fields, and a unique brand 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...

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. From the iconic lone cypress on the Monterey coastline to the palm trees of Beverly Hills and the magnificent coastal redwoods, trees are a definin...

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...

Drawing on decades of researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke coloni...