California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War, The
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California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War, The

Written By : Leonard L. Richards
Narrated By : Jeff Riggenbach
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 10 hours
Categories : Military
Price : $19.95
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"Richards, a leading historian of nineteenth-century America, superbly
illuminates gold-rush California."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards outlines the links
between the Gold Rush and the Civil War.

Richards explains how Southerners envisioned California as a new market for slaves
for digging for gold, schemed to tie California to the South via railroad, and imagined
splitting off the state's southern half for a slave state. We see how the Gold Rush
influenced other regional and national squabbles, and we meet renegade New York
Democrat David Broderick, who became a force in San Francisco politics in 1849,
and his archrival, William Gwin, a major Mississippi slaveholder. Richards recounts
the political battles alongside the fiery California feuds, duels, and, perhaps, outright
murders as the state came shockingly close to being divided in two.

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McCarthy's Bar
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McCarthy's Bar

Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
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Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.