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The Three Californias Trilogy (also known as the Wild Shore Triptych and the Orange County Trilogy) is a book by Kim Stanley Robinson, which depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California. The books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge. Each of these books describes the life of young ...
The Boston Globe, though, called the novel "a mostly solid first book". The Washington Post suggested specific elements (including Lepucki's plot twist) were "thrilling" and "amusing". [1] The New York Post included the book in its "29 best books of the summer" [8] and the Orlando Weekly listed it in its "2014 Summer Guide". [9]
ISBN 0-385-72088-2. Hill, Mary (1999). Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Rawls, James J. and Orsi, Richard J. (eds.) (1999). A golden state: mining and economic development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2).
The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [1] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850.
More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California. ... Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of ...
A humor book called The Densa Quiz: The Official & Complete Dq Test of the International Densa Society was written in 1983 by Stephen Price and J. Webster Shields. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] References
Solar and wind produce cleaner energy than dam-generated hydroelectricity, and advances in irrigation allow us to grow more food with less water. For all these reasons, a wave of dam removals is ...
Gold was found near Coloma in 1848 by James W. Marshall, a white carpenter, setting off the California gold rush that saw hundreds of thousands of people from across the nation and outside of the ...