What was the Gold Rush?

Titre
What was the Gold Rush?

Joan. Holub

Sommaire
Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2013

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Description matérielle
105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Table des matières
What Was the Gold Rush? -- Striking Gold -- Gold Fever -- Rushing West -- Working a Claim -- A Miner's Week -- Striking It Rich (or Not) -- Law and Order -- Boomtowns -- Mining Gets Harder -- How the Gold Rush Changed America -- Timelines.

Terme de vedette-matière
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Literature.
 
Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Literature.
 
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century.
 
Frontier and pioneer life -- California.

Terme géographique
California -- Gold discoveries -- Juvenile literature.
 
California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Juvenile literature.
 
California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
 
California -- Gold discoveries.
 
California -- History -- 1846-1850.
 
California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Tomkinson, Tim,

Résumé
Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780448462899

Informations de publication
New York, N.Y. : Grosset & Dunlap, c2013.


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