A history of the California Gold Rush and its effect upon the development of the American West. Making use of newly available archives of diaries, letters, and other primary sources, history professor Malcolm J. Rohrbough provides a panoramic view of the growth of the American nation.
A history of the California Gold Rush and its effect upon the development of the American West. Making use of newly available archives of diaries, letters, and other primary sources, history professor Malcolm J. Rohrbough provides a panoramic view of the growth of the American nation.
African American records of the Gold Rush are rare, as are underground railroad accounts from those fleeing to freedom; yet here is the account of a self-taught escaped slave and underground railroad worker who also succumbed to the lure of the California Gold Rush. James Williams was all of these things and more, a fascinating individual who in ...
The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of these men and women from the ...
Now a world-famous ski resort, Aspen, Colorado began its life as a booming silver-mining town. In its heyday, Aspen rivaled the camps of Virginia City in Nevada's Comstock Lode, and Leadville in Colorado, as the richest silver-mining center in America. Rohrbough tells the story of Aspen from its founding in 1879 to the collapse of the silver ...
All those who delight in modern Aspen as a ski resort and cultural center, as well as those who enjoy reading about all the old Wild West, will be charmed by this book. In its heyday as a mining town, Aspen rivaled the camps of the California Gold Rush, Virginia City in Nevada's Comstock Lode, and Leadville in Colorado, and from 1887 to 1893 it ...
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