Quotessence
Home / Books / The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

Book by H.W. Brands · 2 quotes · Gold Rush

Filter quotes by topic

AllGold Rush

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream Quotes

“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from warm hearths and good homes, promising to return; they fled from cold hearts and bad debts, never to return. They were farmers and merchants and sailors and slaves and abolitionists and soldiers of fortune and ladies of the night. They jumped bail to start their journey, and jumped ship at journey’s end. They were the pillars of their communities, and their communities’ dregs….”

Gold Rush
Book:The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Create image

“As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Greece and Russia.”

Gold Rush
Book:The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Create image