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Hawthorne Village Gold Rush Express Illuminated Electric Train Collection With Track Set
Vendor: Bradfordexchange.com Price: 89.99 $On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall found flakes of gold in a river at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. Within a year, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world were travelling to California in hopes of finding the mother lode and striking it rich. Now you can celebrate this exciting time in U.S. history with the Gold Rush Express Train Collection, available exclusively from The Bradford Exchange, Hawthorne Village Division. Your electric train collection begins with Issue One, Gold Rush Steam Locomotive. Soon, your collection will continue with Issue Two, Gold Rush Tender with removable replica sculptures of Gold Rush era coins, and FREE 14-piece track set, speed controller and power pack. Next, this electric train collection continues with Issue Three, Baggage Car with replica 1850 "Miss Liberty" coin sculpture, and additional coordinating Gold Rush train cars, each a separate issue to follow.This real working, gleaming metallic gold and silver tone electric train runs on any HO-scale track and is resplendent in meticulous details. Each train car in the collection features raised-relief sculpted golden replicas of authentic Gold Rush era coins, including the highly sought-after "Five Eagle" $50 gold coin struck in 1851. The "Miss Liberty" $20 gold coin and the "Defiant Eagle" octagonal $1 gold coin are also showcased on this illuminated electric train set. Further adding to this magnificent train collection are low-relief images of "forty-niners" painted in metallic gold and silver on each train car, honoring those who bravely risked it all in their quest for new-found wealth along the California Trail. Plus, the headlight of the locomotive lights up for a dramatic touch. Strong demand is anticipated for this Gold Rush-inspired collectible train collection, so order now!
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A Guide to the Gold Rush Country of California (America Through Time)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 2.06 $The discovery of gold on the magical date of January 24, 1848, when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, started a rush that was unprecedented in all of the world's history. It started a boom period to the state that lasted at least 15 years. By 1849, gold production reached $10 million, and it would not be until 1929 that production would drop below that value. 1852 was the all-time peak year, with $82 million in gold production from a total of almost four million ounces mined. Between 1850 and 1864, over one million ounces were mined every year.In this book Frank Lorey covers the historic towns and mining locations in the eleven counties which produced the vast majority of California's golden wealth. Most are situated along and nearby to Highway 49, known as California's "Golden Highway." Today many are nothing more than historic locations, having become ghost towns long ago, but some are still quite lively locations.The book was developed from a popular series of articles in the California Geology and California Mining Journal magazines over the years, starting in 1985. Frank Lorey has taken many of the photographs during his travels in the area, and for a few years he lived just outside the gold rush country.
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Abby - California Gold (South Seas Adventures #3)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 52.69 $When her mother becomes critically ill on Oahu, thirteen-year-old Abigail Kendall must travel with sister, Sarah, and friends Luke and Kini to California to escape the disease. But upon arrival at Luke's Aunt Dagmar's, they can tell they're not welcome. Because gold has just been discovered near Sutter's Mill, the children strike out for the fields, hoping some "quick money" will provide a doctor for Ma and a permanent home for the Kendalls. But all isn't easy in the goldfields. The work is hard, Luke gets "gold fever," and they hear rumors of children being kidnapped. Then Kini and Sarah disappear! As Abby searches desperately for the missing children, she discovers that God knows the desires of our hearts--and never deserts us.
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Sixty Years in California : A History of Events and Life in California; Personal, Political and Military (Classic Reprint)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 24.52 $Excerpt from Sixty Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California; Personal, Political and MilitaryThe author came to California in 1831, seventeen years before the discovery of gold in Sutter's mill-race, and married into a native California family of Spanish extraction. He has continued to reside in the depart~ ment and State ever since, except when absent from it on business.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Placer County (Images of America)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 2.64 $Placer County runs between the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountains, against Sacramento County in the west and 100 miles east to Lake Tahoe. Along the present-day southern border, gold was discovered in 1848 by James Marshall at John Sutter's lumber mill, leading to the California Gold Rush. This relatively narrow county (only 10 to 15 miles across in some spots) has early immigrant trails, wagon roads, railways, and highways all passing through as they head across Donner Summit and across the Sierra Nevadas. Mining, agriculture, transportation, logging, and recreation made Placer County important in the past, and they keep it a thriving place to live now in the 21st century.
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The California Gold Rush: (Reissue) (Landmark Book)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 96.71 $On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered a small nugget of gold in a stream near Sutter's Mill, California. Though he tried to keep it a secret, word spread through the country like wildfire. Before the year was out, the great American Gold Rush had begun. Here's a true-life story that re-creates a time when people from all walks of life dropped what they were doing and headed west with picks and shovels in the hope of finding riches--and added a brand-new chapter to our country's history.
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Lighthouses of the Golden State: California's Majestic Beacons
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 20.04 $With a population of about 200 people Yerba Buena was a sleepy little town in 1846. The following year, Yerba Buena would become San Francisco. With the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill by James Marshall in 1848, a rush to California began that would swell the population of San Francisco to more than 36 thousand by 1850. Risking their lives for the promise of fortune, men traveled from all over the world to this new prosperous land, at a time when the coast of California and the waters surrounding it were unexplored, dangerous and unprotected. Magnificent structures would rise in the decades to follow, built by brave and adventurous souls. At these isolated outposts, hearty individuals were stationed as light-keepers to protect the ships bringing commerce, supplies and the peoples that would build the west. Step back in time to an era of adventure, hardship, loneliness and isolation, when Lighthouses rose on the shores of the Golden State.
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Blacks in Gold Rush California
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 40.85 $By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. The part that they played in this epic adventure has been too long ignored. Here for the first time Rudolph Lapp pieces together in a coherent and fascinating narrative this missing chapter of American history.
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Pioneer Trails: Expanding & Preserving the Union (Primary Source Readers)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 38.73 $In this nonfiction title, readers will discover the hardships that pioneers faced as they traveled West. Readers will love the exciting and adventurous images and stunning facts about the Oregon Trail, Sutter's Mill, the Donner Party, the Gold Rush, Homestead Act, and even about buffalo herds! A helpful table of contents and glossary aid in readers' understanding of life on the trails and prairies. About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.
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