During theAmerican Gold Rush in the mid 1800s in California, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold. They not only prospected forgoldinCaliforniabut they mined for silver in various western locations too. While many books have been written about theCalifornia gold rushwomen who ...
When the Standard Company struck pay dirt in 1877, a gold rush transformed Bodie from a tiny hamlet into a boomtown of 10,000 people. A small part of the town survives, preserved in a state of "arrested decay." Bodie is open all year; however, because of the high elevation, it is ...
In Gold Country, see countless buildings constructed in the boomtown style during the Gold Rush, including properties in Sacramento, Columbia, and Bodie. Joseph Eichler, a modernism pioneer, left a legacy by way of hundreds of glass-walled Eichler homes, largely concentrated in the Bay Area. On...
None of these authors pay much attention to the fact that the Californian paradise hadliterallyto be built; and that the huge amount of construction needed to lay down the boomtowns, and to connect the Promised Land to the rest of America by rail (seeTransportation), entailed a widespread us...
A landing boat for the USS Monrovia, which served as General George S. Patton’s headquarters during the Sicily campaign, surfaced in Shasta Lake recently due to low water levels. But it’s not the only thing hiding in the depths of California’s largest man-made lake. ...
When floods destroyed many of the mills in the canyons between Dalton’s property and San Bernardino, the Azusa mill prospered.Gold was discovered in nearby San Gabriel Canyon in 1854, which brought a flood of miners to the new boomtown of El Doradoville, built at the fork of the San ...
“Long-rifles,” like the .50 caliber Hawken, gave the owner the capability of killing a human, or a deer, at a range of 200 yards. The original 49’ers carried rifles, 5 and 6 shot revolvers, Derringers, pepperboxes, knives; or some such assortment. Outlaw miners in boomtowns were...
"Bodie, the very sound of that name conjures up images of "The Bad Man From Bodie", a rough and tumble life, and the harsh climate of a gold mine boomtown of the early West. But to a young park ranger and his wife, fresh out of college, and with a child on the way, it was...
Columbia is a census-designated place located in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Tuolumne County, California, United States. It was founded as a boomtown in 1850 when gold was found during the California Gold Rush, and was known as the "Gem of the Southern Mines." The town's historic ...
人工控制的古旧缆车穿梭在道路中间,热闹的 渔人码头 常挤得水泄不通, 诺布山 (Nob Hill) 的典雅住宅、 Haight-Ashbury (嬉皮区) 的怪异商店、 同性恋社区 卡斯特罗区 (Castro ) 的壁画和四处飘扬的彩虹旗、以及辽阔的 金门公园 , 还有 一段平面夹角40多度的马路上,有九个“S”形大弯的 九曲花街 , 融合...