The Death Of A Gold Town

Author : Charles E. Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781477173077
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of a Gold Town written by Charles E. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Fitzroy of the small-town newspaper Mine and Mill is dismayed to see the vitality and pioneer strength of his small town fade before the forces of violence, inexplicable deaths, corruption by bribery and acts of vengeance amongst the ordinary citizens of Fiddletown. he decides to log, to chart, as it were, in his paper and his diary the dismal decay of the early California gold town. He sometimes uses his poetic pen to capture the sad events, the inexplicable failures of ordinary people to show civility and compassion. "Gold! fear was not of tomorrow but of an irrecoverable sacrifice of home, honor and charity in the name of gold-a sacrifice and corruption of the conscience like mephisto the gold miners had traded their souls for the golden metal. That fear lingered beneath outward forms of pleasure and happiness, like a waiting spirit of death."

Author : Charles E. Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1436326125
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of a Gold Town written by Charles E. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional account of the death of the town of Fiddlehead.

Author : E. Merton Coulter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334979
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Auraria written by E. Merton Coulter and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first gold rush in American history occurred in north Georgia; it preceded the mining booms in the West by almost two decades. Published in 1956, Auraria tells the story of the mining town at the center of Georgia's gold frenzy. Auraria, which reached its zenith in the 1830s, eventually faded into a ghost town by the twentieth century. E. Merton Coulter gives readers more than a local study by placing Auraria's fascinating story in the context of larger regional and national developments.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cecile Page Vargo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595209
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cerro Gordo written by Cecile Page Vargo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Exhibitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues include separately paged sections: Better management, Physical theatre, extra profits; Review; Servisection.

Author : Rick Antonson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926613252
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slumach's Gold written by Rick Antonson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man’s hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach—the hanged criminal—was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets “the size of walnuts.” The stories claimed that Slumach had placed a curse on a hidden motherlode to protect it from interlopers and trespassers just before he plunged to his death “at the wrong end of a five-strand rope.” Although many have attempted to find Slumach’s gold over the past 100 years, following tantalizing clues that are part of the legend itself, none have succeeded—or have they? Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact—along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.

Author : Gold Coast
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Coast, Ashanti and Northern Territories Ordinances written by Gold Coast and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443449369
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murdered Midas written by Charlotte Gray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

Author : Thomas McNulty
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 035970011X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Town Gold written by Thomas McNulty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released from Yuma prison after serving five years for a crime he didnÕt commit, Jubal Brand travels to a remote ghost town in the Arizona desert hoping to uncover a trunk of Confederate gold. Jubal was told by a dying outlaw in prison where the gold was hidden. Jubal wants that gold as a reward for serving time with robbers who refused to clear his name. But he soon learns that escaped murderer Edward Cobb is also searching for the gold, along with Lani St. Claire, a beautiful but mysterious dove. With a dangerous Apache on the loose, and with enigmatic U. S. Marshal Maxfield Knight tracking Cobb, Brand fears that he wonÕt live long enough to spend any of that gold.