One Shot For Gold

Author : Eleanor Herz Swent
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790077
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Shot for Gold written by Eleanor Herz Swent and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association! An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it. In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive gold mine in the twentieth century. Named the McLaughlin Mine, it produced about 3.4 million ounces of gold between 1985 and 2002. The mine was also one of the first attempts at creating a new full-scale mine in California after the advent of environmental regulations and the first to use autoclaves to extract gold from ore. One Shot for Gold traces the history of the McLaughlin Mine and how it transformed a community and an industry. This lively and detailed account is based largely on oral history interviews with a wide range of people associated with the mine, including Homestake executives, geologists, and engineers as well as local neighbors of the mine, officials from county governments, townspeople, and environmental activists. Their narratives— supported by thorough research into mining company documents, public records, newspaper accounts, and other materials—chronicle the mine from its very beginning to its eventual end and transformation into a designated nature reserve as part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. A mine created at the end of the twentieth century was vastly different from the mines of the Gold Rush. New regulations and concerns about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a large mine in this remote and largely rural region of the state-required decisions at many levels. One Shot for Gold offers an engaging and accessible account of a modern gold mine and how it managed to exist in balance with the environment and the human community around it.

Author : Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846258
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacramento's Gold Rush Saloons written by Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 1839, Sacramento, California, was home to one of the most enduring symbols of the American West: the saloon. From the portability of the Stinking Tent to the Gold Rush favorite El Dorado Gambling Saloon to the venerable Sutter's Fort, Sacramento saloons offered not simply a nip of whiskey and a round of monte but also operated as polling place, museum, political hothouse, vigilante court and site of some of the nineteenth century's worst violence. From librarian James Scott and the Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library comes a fascinating history of Sacramento saloons featuring the advent of all types of gaming, the rise of local alcohol production and the color and guile of some of the region's most compelling personalities..

Author : Eleanor Herz Swent
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486325
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Refugees in America written by Eleanor Herz Swent and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eleanor Swent began teaching English as a Second Language in 1967 at a school for adults in Oakland, California, she soon learned that many of the Asian immigrants in her classes had remarkable tales to tell of struggles in their homelands and their efforts to make new lives in America. This oral history, based on interviews Swent conducted with her students over thirty years, documents the Asian immigrant experience as never before. Here are the stories of desperate individuals who swam to escape from China to Macao and Hong Kong; of Chinese daughters considered worthless by their families; of political refugees from Vietnam; of ethnic Chinese who fled by boat from Vietnam; of refugees from the genocide in Cambodia. As these remarkable new Americans learn different words and customs, they also enlarge our national vision, enriching our culture while assuring us that human dignity can rise above terrible circumstances.

Author : Ron Wendt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886574120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where to Prospect for Gold in Alaska Without Getting Shot! written by Ron Wendt and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide reveals where you can pan, dredge, detect, or sluice for gold legally, and without hassle.

Author : Kristi Gold
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373717326
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The One She Left Behind written by Kristi Gold and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can go home again At eighteen, Savannah Greer has a dream and one shot to make it happen. Choosing big-city success in corporate law means putting her family's farm--and Sam McBriar--in her past. Now, years later, she's on a path toward home. And she has every intention of keeping the visit brief. Too bad life gets in the way. With Sam managing the farm, Savannah can't help but see him--everywhere He's as gorgeous as ever, and when he's with his little girl? Well, it would take a stronger woman than Savannah to resist him. It's not long before they're picking up where they left off...until old betrayals and long-buried secrets threaten to separate them for good.

Author : Cassandra Clare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481431889
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chain of Gold written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brand-new series in the Shadowhunter world."--Cover.

Author : Jaci Burton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399585168
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shot on Gold written by Jaci Burton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new Play-by-Play novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Score, opposites attract when a figure skater and hockey player lace up their skates--and go for the gold... Will "Mad Dog" Madigan is making his second trip to the Winter Games, and he couldn't be happier. Hockey is his life and playing for the U.S. team is a privilege. Then he meets U.S. figure skater Amber Sloane. She's beautiful, ambitious and driven--everything Will desires in a woman. He would love to show Amber how hot life off the ice can be. Amber has skated her entire life, sacrificing everything in the hopes of one day winning gold. Now she's competing for the third and final time. She intends to win, and nothing's going to get in her way--until she meets Will. He's an irresistible charmer, and before long Amber is wondering if this sexy hockey player is the perfect guy to show her some moves outside the rink. But after all the medals have been awarded, Will and Amber will have to decide if what they have together is just a fling or a real shot at true love.

Author : ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATH
Publisher : Harper Sport India
ISBN 13 : 9789352645756
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shot at History written by ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATH and published by Harper Sport India. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhinav Bindra's journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemp

Author : Edward Lee
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Magenta Book About a Dollhouse written by Edward Lee and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth title in Borderlands' "Little Book" series II is by cult favorite writer Ed Lee, who has created a A Little Magenta Book About a Dollhouse. WELCOME TO THE PATTEN MANOR HOUSE. It’s a horror house, a slaughter house, a devil house. And it’s something else, too: A dollhouse. Reginald Lympton collects dollhouses, and now that he’s acquired the rare Patten Doll House, he can boast the most preeminent collection in the world. But after visions too abominable to reckon, and nightmares blacker than the most bottomless abyss, he discovers in short order that his acquisition is not a prized collector’s item at all but a diabolical thoroughfare designed to serve the darkest indulgences of the King of Terrors. Edward Lee, the master of hardcore horror, has penned this audacious homage to the master of the Victorian ghost story, M.R. James.

Author : Chris Cleave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451672748
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold written by Chris Cleave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. What would you sacrifice for the people you love? KATE AND ZOE met at nineteen when they both made the cut for the national training program in track cycling—a sport that demands intense focus, blinding exertion, and unwavering commitment. They are built to exploit the barest physical and psychological edge over equally skilled rivals, all of whom are fighting for the last one tenth of a second that separates triumph from despair. Now at thirty-two, the women are facing their last and biggest race: the 2012 Olympics. Each wants desperately to win gold, and each has more than a medal to lose. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but the demands of her life have a tendency to slow her down. Her eight-year-old daughter Sophie dreams of the Death Star and of battling alongside the Rebels as evil white blood cells ravage her personal galaxy—she is fighting a recurrence of the leukemia that nearly killed her three years ago. Sophie doesn’t want to stand in the way of her mum’s Olympic dreams, but each day the dark forces of the universe seem to be massing against her. Devoted and self-sacrificing Kate knows her daughter is fragile, but at the height of her last frenzied months of training, might she be blind to the most terrible prognosis? Intense, aloof Zoe has always hovered on the periphery of real human companionship, and her compulsive need to win at any cost has more than once threatened her friendship with Kate—and her own sanity. Will she allow her obsession, and the advantage she has over a harried, anguished mother, to sever the bond they have shared for more than a decade? Echoing the adrenaline-fueled rush of a race around the Velodrome track, Gold is a triumph of superbly paced, heart-in-throat storytelling. With great humanity and glorious prose, Chris Cleave examines the values that lie at the heart of our most intimate relationships, and the choices we make when lives are at stake and everything is on the line.