wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Before The Gold Rush: The Sinclairs of Rancho del Paso 1840-1849
ISBN: 9781542983167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. They met by chance in Mexican-owned California, each drawn to the pastoral province in different years and for entirely different reasons. For John Sinclair, it was the continuation of a continental adventure. For Mary Eyre, it was a dramatic intervention on the Oregon Trail. They married and settled on a great Sacramento Valley rancho, the predecessors of the tide of Americans who emigrated West in covered wagons in search of a brighter future. Their ranch was just across the American River from Captain John Sutter's famed trading post, located at a geographic crossroads that put the...
They met by chance in Mexican-owned California, each drawn to the pastoral province in different years and for entirely different reasons. For John Si...
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55,04 zł |
Disaster and Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush through the Civil War
ISBN: 9781467906289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Most histories explore men's lives. Disaster & Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush Through the Civil War is the first to highlight the women who helped shape history in California's capital city during and after the great California Gold Rush. Tens of thousands of men from all over the world descended on the region eager to find a fortune . . . but expecting to get rich quick and return home, few brought wives and families. Two years into the Golden Immigration, less than 8% of Sacramento's residents were women. Yet those women made their mark, proving their mettle as decision makers and...
Most histories explore men's lives. Disaster & Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush Through the Civil War is the first to highlight the women who help...
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68,75 zł |
Sacramento Chronicles: A Golden Past
ISBN: 9781540206923 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,73 zł |
Rise, Ruin & Restoration: A History of Sutter's Fort
ISBN: 9781941713709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,33 zł |
The Stagecoach in Northern California: Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers
ISBN: 9781540209245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,73 zł |
The Stagecoach in Northern California: Rough Rides, Gold Camps & Daring Drivers
ISBN: 9781626192546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New England stagemen followed thousands of bedazzled gold rushers out west in 1849, carving out the first public overland transportation routes in California. Daring drivers like Hank Monk navigated treacherous terrain, while entrepreneurs such as James Birch, Jared Crandall and Louis McLane founded stagecoach companies traveling from Stockton to the Oregon border and over the formidable Sierra Nevada. Stagecoaches hauling gold from isolated mines to big-city safes were easy targets for highwaymen like Black Bart. Road accidents could end in disaster--coaches even tumbled down mountainsides....
New England stagemen followed thousands of bedazzled gold rushers out west in 1849, carving out the first public overland transportation routes in Cal...
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104,79 zł |