The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War, Paperback - Leonard L. Richards

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civi...

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. 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...

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 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. 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...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades lead...

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. During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful a...

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

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...

From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins of the Ame...

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. 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. 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. 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...

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Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingIllustration(s): full color and b-w photographs and illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 202...

The Irish Civil War was contested as bitterly in Clare as in any other part of Ireland. The pattern of the war in the country was similar to the mi...

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

Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

Reducere. Wisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks bui...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephanie FitzgeraldConsultant: Mark SnellIn 1861 the United States was at a crossroads. People in the Southern states beli...

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Reducere. In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He con...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

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Reducere. The first military conflict to use iron-clad gunboats, metallic cartridges, and submarines, the Civil War also introduced such inventions as the te...

Reducere. Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles B. DewCharles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of...

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Reducere. More Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with more predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, and other bizarre events of the Civil W...

Reducere. For two days in the year 1862, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War held theatre in southern Tennessee - a patch of land called Shiloh. T...

Reducere. Leonard investigates why these women chose unconventional ways to help their cause. In doing so, she gives us a striking portrait of the lives wome...

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...

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Reducere. DescriptionEmbracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a con...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara ...

Reducere. A Confederate soldier confronts the horror of battle and the power of grace in this "poignant, haunting, and important" novel of the Civil War (The...

In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. The Last Full Measure tells...

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Reducere. The American Civil War divided the United States from 1861-1865. During those years, over two million soldiers served in both the Union and Confede...