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portada gold seekers: gold, ghosts, and legends from carolina to california (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1989
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm
Weight
0.44 kg.
ISBN
0872496589
ISBN13
9780872496583

gold seekers: gold, ghosts, and legends from carolina to california (in English)

Nancy Roberts (Author) · University of South Carolina Press · Paperback

gold seekers: gold, ghosts, and legends from carolina to california (in English) - Roberts, Nancy

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Synopsis "gold seekers: gold, ghosts, and legends from carolina to california (in English)"

This is the first book to tie together the earlier gold rush in the Carolinas and Georgia with the well-known California gold rush of 1849. It presents a history of the Southern gold rush and the legends that have grown up around it. Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the U.S. Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California and Colorado, including how the Virginia, Carolina and Georgia gold miners abandoned their mines within weeks after news arrived of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Creek. And, for a while, they were said to be the only experienced miners in the Western gold fields.Ms. Roberts recreates with gusto and suspense the experiences of real people--the adventurers and entrepreneurs, family men and rascals, immigrants and bandits, entertainers and miners--and also includes several tales of the supernatural from the period.There was North Carolina's flamboyant Walter George Newman, who fleeced the wolves of Wall Street; "Fool Billy," who South Carolinians disocered was not a fool at all; a romantic specter called Scarlett O'Hara of the Dorn Mine; Georgian Green Russell, with his beard braided like a pirate, who founded Denver; "Free Jim," the only black man in Dahlonega to own his own gold mine only to leave it for San Francisco; the Grisly Ghost of Gold Hill; a general from North Carolina who became an influential Californian; the ghost Bride of Vallecito; and California's bandit, the enigmatic Black Bart.

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