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Hard road west : history & geology along the Gold Rush trail /

In 1849 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. T...

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Main Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Landscapes > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Landforms > West (U.S.)
Geology > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
West (U.S.) > Geography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780226923291
0226923290
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : Stardust
  • 1. An American journey
  • 2. Between winter's chill brackets
  • 3. Ascending the plains
  • 4. Exhumed mountains and hungry rivers
  • 5. Black Hills and bent rock
  • 6. To the backbone of the continent
  • 7. Cordilleran upheaval
  • 8. Most godforsaken country
  • 9. The bear and the snake
  • 10. A breaking up of the world
  • 11. Most miserable river
  • 12. The worst desert you ever saw
  • 13. Into the land of gold
  • 14. Contingent history
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Figure credits
  • Index.

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