Author: Joe F. Petralia
Publisher: Sierra Trading Post
Keywords: gold, hunting, treasure, prospecting, prospect
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0960589007
ISBN-13: 9780960589005
Gold! Gold! A beginners handbook and recreational guide: How & Where to prospect for Gold! reveals everything you will need to know to start your search for this most precious metal! Beginning with an historical overview and geological background, Gold! Gold! gives the reader a thorough understanding of WHY gold is WHERE it is and HOW you can recover it. Seven profusely illustrated chapters from both 19th and 21st century resources outline and instruct on all popular oldtime and modern recovery methods from panning, sluicing, dredging through the use of metal detectors. Gold panning to n
Author: H.W. Brand
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: gold, dream, american, rush, california, new
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2003-10-14
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0385720882
ISBN-13: 9780385720885
Texas A&M University professor H.W. Brands enhances his reputation as one of America’s great popular historians with The Age of Gold, which tells the story of the California gold rush through rollicking narrative and intelligent analysis. "James Marshall’s discovery of gold at Coloma [in 1848] turned out to be a seminal event in history, one of those rare moments that divide human existence into before and after," he writes. It launched "the most astonishing mass movement of people since the Crusades" and "helped initiate the modern era of American economic development." Brands des
Author: Michael J. Kosare
Publisher: Addicus Book
Keywords: gold, wealth, build, investing, abcs, protect
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1886039720
ISBN-13: 9781886039728
Beginning investors will find thorough guidelines for making good decisions in this guide to private gold ownership. Emphasis is placed on the asset-preservation qualities of gold at a time when investor uncertainty about the economy and recent investment scandals have led many to seek asset diversification. The economic and political trends driving gold marketing are detailed, as are the reasons why gold plays an important role in millions of investment portfolios worldwideas both a hedge and an investment for capital gain. Topics examined include understanding gold’s role in combating
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: University Of California Press
Keywords: gold, nation, american, california, days, rush
Number of Pages: 569
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0520216598
ISBN-13: 9780520216594
On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession--soon called 49ers--included the wealthy and the poor from every state and territory, including slaves brought by their owners. In numbers, they represented the greatest mass migration in the history of the Republic.In this first comprehensive history of the Gold Rush, Malcolm J. Rohrbough demonstrates that
Author: David Williams
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: gold, cherokees, fever, niners, twenty, rush, georgia
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1570030529
ISBN-13: 9781570030529
In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today
Author: Douglas Fetherling
Publisher: University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Keywords: gold, rushes, history, social, crusades
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-11-08
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0802080464
ISBN-13: 9780802080462
Among the hordes of starry-eyed ’argonauts’ who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went.Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of sponta
Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: gold, brick
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 142502338X
ISBN-13: 9781425023386
ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.?The Gold Brick and The Gold Mine? was a remarkable addition in literature on modern fiction by Emerson Huge. It is the story that criticises the general envy that arises seeing other?s property and prosperity. The robb
