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LERNER & LOEWE REDUX
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One of the oddest offerings in the annals of Hollywood is "Paint
Your Wagon," a wild west tale starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood
... singing.
The 1951Broadway musical by hit-making duo Alan Jay Lerner and
Frederick Loewe was adapted for the screen in 1969 by dramatist Paddy
Chayefsky. It's practically mind-blowing to see tough guy Marvin
dance or to hear Eastwood chirping "I Sing to the Trees."
Though the film bombed, the original score remained a classic. It
was those son...
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America's Golden Dream - Historian H.W. Brands' vigorous narrative history of the gold rush as a defining American event is an interpretive tour de force.(Book Review)
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; Kevin Starr is the state librarian of California and history professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His most recent book, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace: 1940--1950, is the sixth volume in his ongoing Americans and the California Dream series. THE AGE OF
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Riches For All: The California Gold Rush and the World
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; ... The California Gold Rush and the World. Edited by Kenneth N. Owens. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 367. Maps. Notes. Index. $27.95 paper. The official California Gold-Rush-to-Statehood Sesquicentennial Commission was authorized by the ...
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; A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. Edited by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 335 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-520-21770-5; paper 0-520-21771-3. Reviewed by William Deverell As
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Mixed Signals At Gold Rush Celebration
Sacramento Observer
; Sacramento Observer 09-16-1998 MIXED SIGNALS AT GOLD RUSH CELEBRATION by PATRICE ROBINSON OBSERVER Staff Writer Over the Labor Day Weekend, hundreds of Sacramentans walked the streets of Old Sacramento, catching a glimpse of the early days of the city, during the Second Great Gold Rush. Sponsored
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Hello, You've Got Game Show! Viewers dig 'Gold Rush,' a new Internet series from reality-TV's Mark Burnett. Here's how he made AOL a 'Survivor.'.
Newsweek
; Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts This week on Gold Rush : who will walk away with $1 million in genuine gold bars? Will it be Michael Kearney of Memphis, who holds a world record for graduating college at 10? Will it be David Delaserda, the unemployed single dad of two from Freemont, Ohio? Or maybe it
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Hello, You've Got Game Show! Viewers dig "Gold Rush," a new Internet series from reality TV's Mark Burnett. Here's how he made AOL a "Survivor."
Newsweek International
; ... those gains. WaMu bank, an advertiser, had a 21 percent jump in new free checking accounts in the third quarter, and president Steve Rotella says, We believe that 'Gold Rush' helped get us there. Good news: the bank accepts deposits in gold bars.
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Rush For Riches: Gold Fever And the Making of California.(Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World)(American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-class Culture. Cultural Studies of the United States)(Book Review)
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; ... adventure, exploitation, and transformation. Handsomely presented, the oversize volume has excellent illustrations, and many maps that are both informative and beautiful. Holliday incorporates details that stick in the reader's memory: In 1846, there was ...
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Environmental History
; ... Morse. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95. The Klondike gold rush of 1897-1898 delivered a dose of excitement during a bleak ...
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After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley.(Book review)
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; AFTER THE GOLD RUSH: TARNISHED DREAMS IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY By David Vaught (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 328 pp., illus., $55.00 cloth) THIS IS THE STORY of a small group of farmers who arrived at Putah Creek, west of Sacramento, just after the Gold Rush, and of
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