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The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever Taschenbuch – 1. November 1994
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The definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rush
In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners 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. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma.
The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners.
Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe192 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberUniversity of South Carolina Press
- Erscheinungstermin1. November 1994
- Abmessungen15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101570030529
- ISBN-13978-1570030529
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"The Georgia Gold Rush does bring together in a single, very readable narrative the secondary and printed primary materials on this subject, with important emphasis on Native Americans and other overlooked aspects of this story."―Georgia Historical Quarterly
"This book will serve as the standard reference on the subject."―North Carolina Historical Review
"Concise, well written, built on a mountain of primary sources."―Atlanta History
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A professor of history at Valdosta State University, David Williams received his Ph.D. in history from Auburn University in 1988. The author of numerous articles on Georgia history, the Old South, Appalachia, and the Civil War, Williams is the author of Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley and Johnny Reb's War: Battlefield and Homefront and the coauthor of Gold Fever: America's First Gold Rush and Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia.
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- Herausgeber : University of South Carolina Press; Reprint Edition (1. November 1994)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Taschenbuch : 192 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 1570030529
- ISBN-13 : 978-1570030529
- Artikelgewicht : 340 g
- Abmessungen : 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm
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David Williams is a retired university professor who for more than thirty years taught survey courses in U.S history along with upper division and graduate courses in Old South, Civil War era, and Georgia history. He is seen here with his wife, Teresa Crisp Williams, with whom he co-authored several books, book chapters, and articles. This historical marker, for which they wrote the text, is located at the north end of Broad Street in Columbus, Georgia. It commemorates one of many women's riots that occurred across the South during the Civil War, including all of Georgia's major cities and many of its smaller communities. These and other incidents reflecting social currents that undermined the Confederate war effort are discussed in his book BITTERLY DIVIDED: THE SOUTH'S INNER CIVIL WAR and more recently GEORGIA'S CIVIL WAR: CONFLICT ON THE HOME FRONT.
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In the chapters titled "Gold Fever and the Great Intrusion" and "The Cherokee Nation Abandoned," Williams gives one of if not the most accurate concise histories of Cherokee Removal I have ever read.
Additional chapters review a miner's life, the people who made money (most weren't miners), and the end of the Georgia gold era in 1849.



