Kenneth Ray Owens

Gold Rush Saints: California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier)

From 1846 to 1857 Mormons played a crucial role in shaping events in California and the West. They were the first American settlers of San Francisco, and without them, John Sutter might not have built his sawmill and thus discovered gold in 1848.In Gold Rush Saints, Kenneth N. Owens combines narrati...

Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World

An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, tech...

Gateway Helen E. Hearne 2013

The Helen E. Hearne Young Adult Literary Competition through Gateway Arts Foundation will reach out and recognize students in the literary field. Applications will be accepted from students 14 – 22 years of age for a short story, 50 – 75 pages, approximately 14,000 – 21,000 words. The short story ...

Perilous Passage (pb): A Narrative of the Montana Gold Rush, 1862-1863

In 1862 Edwin Ruthven Purple seized the chance to strike it rich in the newly discovered goldfields of the northern Rocky Mountains. With an introduction and thorough annotations by Kenneth N. Owens, Perilous Passage offers Purple's never-before-published, first-person narrative. On hand for the cri...

Chinese on the American Frontier (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states―from the Cas...

Tenderfoot in Montana: Reminiscences Of The Gold Rush, The Vigilantes, And The Birth Of Montana Territory

Frank Thompson's lively memoir details his experiences in the upper Missouri country at the beginning of the Montana gold rush. A young man at the outset of the Civil War, Thompson supported the Union cause but realized that military life was not for him after a day spent watching the operations of ...

The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai

In 1808 the Sv. Nikolai, owned by the Russian American Company, set sail from New Arkhangel (modern-day Sitka, Alaska) to explore and identify a site for a permanent Russian fur trading post on the mainland south of Vancouver Island. Heavy seas drove the ship aground in late December, forcing twenty...

Empire Maker: Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)

A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia's highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership ...

John Sutter and a Wider West

Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World

The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai

Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World

John Sutter: Sutter's Fort and the California Gold Rush

Gold Rush Saints: California Mormons And The Great Rush For Riches

The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai: Two Narratives of the First Russian Expedition to the Oregon Country, 1808-1810

The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai: Two Narratives of the First Russian Expedition to the Oregon Country, 1808-1810