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Gold : the California story /
"Mary Hill's book chronicles this important chapter in California's history. Combining the narrative skill of the storyteller with the expertise of the geologist, Hill gives us a complete and fascinating picture of California gold - its origins in the Earth, the history of its discove...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The gold that changed a nation
- Whodunit?
- Cry gold!
- After the rush
- Rushing to cash in
- Life in San Francisco
- Outdoor scholars
- Life in the mines
- How they mined the gold
- The natural history of placer gold
- Mining the dead rivers
- The mud flood
- Mining in the deep dark
- All dressed up
- The big picture
- The moving earth
- Gold comes to California
- California through the ages
- Out of the mines, into the world
- Good-bye to the Central America
- Lost and gone forever
- Mining gold for fun and maybe profit
- The corporate gold rush and its disreputable offspring
- What good is gold?