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The Age Gold: California Gold Rush and New American Dream tells stories of the great fortunes made and of great fortunes lost by hundreds now forgotten by history and also tells the profound effect of the Gold Rush on the way Americans viewed their destinies, as the Puritan ethic of hard work and the gradual accumulation of worldly riches gave way to the notion of how to get weatlthy really fast.

They went to the West to change to lead their lives to change and in the bargain they changed the world. This would become a wonderful story of the men and women of the Gold Rush.

When gold was first found on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was populated frontier territory not yet ceded to the United States from Mexixo. The discovery triggered a massive influx as hundreds of thousands of people got together to California in search of riches, braving dangerous journeys across the Pacific, around Cape Horn, and through the Isthmus of Panama, as well as across America's vast, unsettled wilderness.The cities sprang up overnight, in response to the demand for supplies and services of all kinds. California had become a state by 1850 as well as became the fastest journey to statehood in U.S. history. Not only did it lead a symbol for a America to stand for something but it also lead it to go somewhere.

H. W. Brands explores the far-reaching implications of this pivotal point in U.S. history, weaving the politics of the times with the gripping stories of people that shows the best and the worst of the American character.Brands tells the national issues that went around the ratification of California's statehood, rushing the clouds that would lead to an event that would be known as '' Civil War''. He tells the stories of the great fortunes made by such great figures such as John Fremont , Jessie Fremont, and George Hearst and of great fortunes lost by hundreds now forgotten by history. He reveals the important effect of the Gold Rush on the way Americans viewed their destinies, as the Puritan ethic of hard work and the gradual accumulation of worldly riches gave way to the notion of becoming wealthy extremely fast."I have found it." These words, that was said by the man who first found gold on the American River in 1848, had cause the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California's gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth. It increase the America's imperial expansion and made worse the tensions that went in the Civil War. As H. W. Brands makes clear in this spellbinding book, the Gold Rush lead a new American dream-the "dream of instant wealth, which was the cause by audacity and good luck."

Brands tells his epic story from alot of his point of view: of adventurers John Fremont and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens-side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He gives a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.