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Название: Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton
ISBN: 9780253053947
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Америк

ISBN-10: 0253053943
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 144
Вес: 0.29 кг.
Дата издания: 08.06.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 5 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 229 x 152 x 17
Ключевые слова: Biography: historical, political & military,History of the Americas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical,HISTORY / Military / United States,HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Подзаголовок: The life of colonel william stephen hamilton, alexander hamilton`s forgotten son
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life of Alexander Hamiltons son.
Born in New York in 1797, the fifth son of Alexander Hamilton, he was only seven when his father was infamously killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. After resigning from West Point, Hamilton moved to frontier Illinois in 1817. The famous name of Hamilton that may have acquired him rank and prestige at one time was meaningless in a Midwestern frontier society driven by the Jacksonians. Yet, despite being hurled into a clash of economic, political, and cultural cultures, Hamilton determined to live his life by his own rules. A veteran of the Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives before moving to the Wisconsin territory, where he founded the mining town of Hamiltons Diggings (Wiota, WI). When gold was discovered in California in 1848, he traveled west, where he would die in Sacramento in 1850.
In Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, author A. K. Fielding expands the story of the Hamilton family. Hamiltons life offers a firsthand account of the formation of the Midwestern states, the realities of life on the frontier, and mass migration caused by the California Gold Rush.
Дополнительное описание: Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Broken Beginnings
2. The Man
3. Life in Illinois
4. Black Hawk War
5. Gray Gold
6. Taming the Frontier
7. El Dorado
8. Dead End
Bibliography
Index

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