A Primary Source Investigation of the Gold Rush 9781499435115, 2015000016

A Primary Source Investigation of the Continental Congress 9781508184126, 9781508184119

Although America's original thirteen colonies lived in peace with England for many years after their founding at Ja

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A Primary Source Investigation of Manifest Destiny 9781508184034, 9781508184027

"Westward Ho!" was the call of many a pioneer heading into the western United States from the country's b

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A Primary Source Investigation of the Salem Witch Trials [1 ed.] 9781499435146, 9781499435139

This detailed volume tells the dark story of the Salem witchcraft trials with a lively narrative and primary source docu

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The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America’s Most Famous Gold Rushes

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rushes written by participants *Includes bibliographies for further re

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The Gold Rush 9781838713737, 9781844576401

Matthew Solomon’s study of Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film’s production and r

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Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848†“1854 9780300182187

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers tr

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What Was the Gold Rush? 9781101610299

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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation 9780520922075, 0520922077

On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continen

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Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush 9781501707346

Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California

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Blacks in Gold Rush California 9780300162134

By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the

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