Frontier America: The Story of the Westward MovementScribner, 1959 - 832 Seiten |
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... gold hunters : Was the stuff they were picking up really gold or was it mica or sulphuret of copper ? Equipment or skill for making a dependable assay was not im- mediately available . There was , however , in that vicinity a Georgia ...
... gold hunters : Was the stuff they were picking up really gold or was it mica or sulphuret of copper ? Equipment or skill for making a dependable assay was not im- mediately available . There was , however , in that vicinity a Georgia ...
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... gold which the Cali- fornians put afloat in the world of finance and commerce was not so im- portant as the rapidity with which the West Coast was populated . Three important cities grew in the path of the gold rush : San Francisco ...
... gold which the Cali- fornians put afloat in the world of finance and commerce was not so im- portant as the rapidity with which the West Coast was populated . Three important cities grew in the path of the gold rush : San Francisco ...
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... gold in rich quantities . Here it was that Virginia City , Montana , was founded , and like its namesake in Nevada , the new camp became a wild and reckless gold mine town where life ebbed and flowed in stormy cur- rents . In 1864 John ...
... gold in rich quantities . Here it was that Virginia City , Montana , was founded , and like its namesake in Nevada , the new camp became a wild and reckless gold mine town where life ebbed and flowed in stormy cur- rents . In 1864 John ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I The American FrontierA Perspective | 2 |
The Allegheny Frontier | 26 |
The Frontier at War | 54 |
Urheberrecht | |
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