How the California Gold Rush Changed the Face of America eBook Nancy Hendrickson
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Until gold was discovered by James Marshall, California was a far-off land and San Francisco a shantytown. But once the world heard of the gold strikes, America was on the move!
This 4,000 word essay on how the California gold rush really did change the face of America is for anyone whose feet get itchy just thinking of what those days must have been like.
The author is a long-time history buff and best-selling author. When not writing about history she spends as much time as she can walking in history's footsteps.
How the California Gold Rush Changed the Face of America eBook Nancy Hendrickson
I am a history junkie, especially about the Gold Rushes in the US and Australia. So I had great expectations that this book would add to my knowledge base - but unfortunately it didn't add as much as some historical adventure novels I have read in the same setting. This book was really no more than a long University essay but did sum up a few essential facts about the Californian Gold Rush:* Most went to the gold fields to get rich and go home and not to settle in California.
* Many never made it to California because the trip from the Eastern States was monumental and fraught with dangers, on a wagon train (with disease, hunger and Indians), round the treacherous Cape Horn or by sea and land across the jungles of the Panama isthmus.
* More people became rich supplying the miners than the miners themselves.
* About 1 in 5 miners died within 6 months of getting to the gold fields from accidents, disease and malnutrition.
* The Gold Rush was the trigger and the financial base for the construction of a trans-continental railway that eventually brought settlers in great numbers to the rich resources of California.
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How the California Gold Rush Changed the Face of America eBook Nancy Hendrickson Reviews
i have not read this book (yet).
i am a descendant of henry sargent crandall & have his 1849 medal.
i am the grandson of arthur fitzjames crandall, son of henry.
Great quick read for a middle school assignment. Lots of good of good ideas but no bibliography so a question as to factual content.
This was a very short book with none of the detail I would have expected for such a interesting history of the West.
I really enjoyed reading the history on the gold rush it's very educational and really enjoy learning how life use to be
I grew up in California, not far from the gold-rush region of the Sierras and Sacramento. We used to tour Sutter's fort as a children. I have read "Patty Reed's Doll" and have been fascinated with the Donner party saga. These pre-date the gold rush, but add to the intrigue of this slice of United States history.
Ms. Hendrickson catalogues, not only the effect that the gold rush had on the country as a whole, but also the effect that the allure of "easy" and abundant riches had on individuals. You get a good idea of what day to day life was like for those determined to stake their claim in the wilds of Northern California.
This is not a book on the history of California nor was it meant to be. It is how a gold strike not only changed people, but changed a nation forever with the effects felt around the world. It shows how individuals many times having had no luck in the gold fields turned into merchants,hoteliers, and restaurant entrepreneurs in order to survive and even prosper. And how things would never be the same. A good historical read.
I am a history junkie, especially about the Gold Rushes in the US and Australia. So I had great expectations that this book would add to my knowledge base - but unfortunately it didn't add as much as some historical adventure novels I have read in the same setting. This book was really no more than a long University essay but did sum up a few essential facts about the Californian Gold Rush
* Most went to the gold fields to get rich and go home and not to settle in California.
* Many never made it to California because the trip from the Eastern States was monumental and fraught with dangers, on a wagon train (with disease, hunger and Indians), round the treacherous Cape Horn or by sea and land across the jungles of the Panama isthmus.
* More people became rich supplying the miners than the miners themselves.
* About 1 in 5 miners died within 6 months of getting to the gold fields from accidents, disease and malnutrition.
* The Gold Rush was the trigger and the financial base for the construction of a trans-continental railway that eventually brought settlers in great numbers to the rich resources of California.
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