 | John Gottberg - 1999 - 260 str.
...Sherman, who sent reports and samples to Washington by courier. On December 5, 1848. Polk told Congress. "The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...corroborated by the authentic reports of officers of the public service." It was the kind of pronouncement the public was waiting for - a match applied... | |
 | William S. Pierson - 1999 - 208 str.
...specimens) were sent to Washington, DC. President Polk, in his State-of-the-Union message, declared: "The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief." Gold fever overtook the country by storm, though it lasted but a decade, from 1 849 to 1 86 2. Out... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 str.
...discoveries render it probable that these mines are more extensive and valuable than was anticipated. The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district and derived the facts which they detail from personal observation.... | |
 | David Sievert Lavender, David Lavender - 2000 - 474 str.
...plowing through the Sangre de Cristos in sub-zero cold — Polk told Congress in his final message: "The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...authentic reports of officers in the public service. " Two days later a special messenger from California's military governor. Colonel Richard Mason, arrived... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - 1986 - 484 str.
...credible evidence, culminating in PresidentJames K. Polk's formal statement to Congress in December that “the accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...extraordinary character as would scarcely command beliefwere they not corroborated by authentic reports of officers in the public service.” Thus the... | |
 | James Dunkerley - 2000 - 732 str.
...than was anticipated. The accounts are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely commend belief, were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service. However, as the senior public servant, Polk was himself obliged to indicate some consequences of both... | |
 | 2000 - 340 str.
...discoveries render it probable that these mines are more extensive and valuable than was anticipated. The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 str.
...discoveries render it probable that these mines are more extensive and valuable than was anticipated. The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district and derived the facts which they detail from personal observation.... | |
 | Martin Lynch - 2002 - 354 str.
...discoveries render it probable that these mines are more extensive and valuable than was anticipated. The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory...extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were it not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service'.28 New York's newspapers... | |
 | Cathleen Benko, Franklin Warren McFarlan - 2003 - 270 str.
..."The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory," Polk claimed of California, "are of such extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by authentic reports of officers in the public service."4 This bit of presidential hype, converging as... | |
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The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district... 
