The Gold Rush also had a devastating effect on California’sNative population. As land became more scarce, the white American men who had settled there became fiercely territorial, often resorting to violence or forced labor by sending migrant or Native American workers down into the treacherous mi...
An amazing number of people thanked him for his 28 years of work on PBS’ Reading Rainbow. John de Lancie played Q on TNG (Star Trek the Next Generation), DS9 (Deep Space 9), and Voyager. (I don’t know if he was on Enterprise, as I haven’t seen most of that yet. ) He ...
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I watched this documentary when it was first shown on PBS, and then I watched it again on Amazon Prime. I came to realize from watching some of Ken Burn’s other documentaries that his works have a certain nostalgic quality about them. And in this hefty series chronicling the first governm...
In the mid-1800s, immigrants from all over the world flooded to California during the Gold Rush; many who came to make their fortune from gold discovered that ranching would be more profitable than mining, as demand for local products grew with the great influx of forty-niners to San ...
Combined with another never-far-from-the-surface part of that identity, the Gold Rush, my new home seemed to be constantly trumpeting a kind of California exceptionalism. Things happened here, everything seemed to say, that never happened anywhere else in the U.S. California is different—and...
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Neil Young, Southern Man, album, “After the Gold Rush,” 1970. 25. More Treasures from the American Film Archives, DVD. 26. William K. Everson, American Silent Film, Da Capo Press, NY, 1998, p124. 27. Peter Kobel and the Library of Congress, Silent Movies, Little, Brown and Co,...