The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever
In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners from all parts of the United States poured into the region. This Southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. Said Benjamin Parks, one of Georgia's first twenty-niners: The news got abroad, and such excitement you never saw. It seemed within a few days as if the whole world must have heard of it, for men came from every state I had ever heard of. They came afoot, on horseback and in wagons, acting more like crazy men than anything else. All the way from where Da…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57003-052-9
- EAN: 9781570030529
- Produktnummer: 9201972
- Verlag: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.5 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
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