Gold Ghosts

Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328618579
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375866191
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ghost written by Marion Dane Bauer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a bike outing to the abandoned houses by the old cement mill, Delsie and her friend Todd discover one of the houses is not empty--and a ghost dog haunts the area.

Author : David W. De Havelland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold and Ghosts written by David W. De Havelland and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465347402
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts, Gold Diggers and Gun Slingers written by Richard Murphy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What turned Atlanta professional man John Henry Doc Holiday into a stone cold killer? What was Docs weapon of choice? Who really killed Pat Garrett? Did Wyatt Earp ever track down his brother Virgils killer? What minister of the gospel became the wests deadliest paid killer? Who was the wildest of Butch Cassidys Wild Bunch? What catastrophe almost wiped out the cattle business in 1888? What were the wests greatest gold strikes and how were they discovered? Does the ghost of pioneer Brit Bailey still stalk the prairie near Old Brazoria? Author Murphy answers these intriguing questions and many other in this book aptly titled Ghosts, Gold Diggers and Gun Slingers, which is the product of a lifetime of research and several years of writing and rewriting.

Author : John Frederick Walker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 155584913X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ivory's Ghosts written by John Frederick Walker and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast

Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173604
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Seekers written by Nancy Roberts and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that—for the first time—ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849. Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the US Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California and Colorado, including how the Virginia, Carolina and Georgia gold miners abandoned their mines within weeks after news arrived of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Creek. And, for a while, they were said to be the only experienced miners in the Western gold fields. Ms. Roberts recreates with gusto and suspense the experiences of real people—the adventurers and entrepreneurs, family men and rascals, immigrants and bandits, entertainers and miners—and also includes several tales of the supernatural from the period. There was North Carolina’s flamboyant Walter George Newman, who fleeced the wolves of Wall Street; “Fool Billy,” who South Carolinians discovered was not a fool at all; a romantic specter called Scarlett O’Hara of the Dorn Mine; Georgian Green Russell, with his beard braided like a pirate, who founded Denver; “Free Jim,” the only black man in Dahlonega to own his own gold mine only to leave it for San Francisco; the Grisly Ghost of Gold Hill; a general from North Carolina who became an influential Californian; the ghost bride of Vallecito; and California’s bandit, the enigmatic Black Bart.

Author : John Sazaklis
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1663909946
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Miner's Ghost written by John Sazaklis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Inc. gang visits a guest ranch that is haunted by an old prospector.

Author : Louise Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689875878
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden & Grey: The Nightmares That Ghosts Have written by Louise Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to continuing their work to stop school bullies, eleven-year-old Tom Golden and Grey Arthur--along with several spectral friends--try to discover why ghosts across England are vanishing.

Author : Roberta Eaton Cheadle
Publisher : Tsl Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781913294946
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ghost and His Gold written by Roberta Eaton Cheadle and published by Tsl Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Tom and Michelle Cleveland move into their recently built, modern townhouse, their housewarming party is disrupted when a drunken game with an Ouija board goes wrong and summonses a sinister poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904. Estelle makes her presence known in a series of terrifying events, culminating in her attacking Tom in his sleep with a knife. But, Estelle isn't alone. Who are the shadows lurking in the background - one in an old-fashioned slouch hat and the other, a soldier, carrying a rifle? After discovering their house has been built on the site of one of the original farms in Irene, Michelle becomes convinced that the answer to her horrifying visions lie in the past. She must unravel the stories of the three phantoms' lives, and the circumstances surrounding their untimely deaths during the Second Anglo Boer War, in order to understand how they are tied together and why they are trapped in the world of ghosts between life and death. As the reasons behind Estelle's malevolent behaviour towards Tom unfold, Michelle's marriage comes under severe pressure and both their lives are threatened.

Author : Oren Arnold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839740213
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Gold written by Oren Arnold and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Gold, first published in 1954, is the story of Arizona’s Superstition Mountain and the Lost Dutchman Mine, a legendary mine containing a rich gold deposit (whether or not the mine does in fact exist remains an unanswered question). In a fascinating look at the mine’s history, author Oren Arnold (1900-1980) recounts the known facts and legends about the exploration and ‘discovery’ of the mine and the fate of some its the notable personalities (such as the “Lost Dutchman” himself—Jakob Walz). Included are 8 pages of illustrations. Author Oren Arnold was an authority on the lore of the West and wrote more than 20 books and many magazine articles.