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In front of the long one-story adobe station a man waited, eyes turned to the West. His hand rested on the flat straight back of a spirited chestnut horse. Byers was small and wiry, hard as nails. His high heeled boots, buckskin breeches, flannel shirt, and skull cap had all been chosen for utility and not for looks. He wasted no energy in useless protest, but the fat station keeper who leaned against the door jamb and chewed tobacco knew he was seething...
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From the lost empires of the Sahara to today's frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by the award-winning author of Diamond.Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketed--in three years more than doubling from $800 an ounce to $1900. This massive spike kicked off an unprecedented global gold-mining and exploration boom, much bigger than the Gold Rush of the 1800s. In Gold, acclaimed...
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Gold Panning California is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in California. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in California. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background.
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Though not yet a state, California is now a U.S. possession. The old Dons possess vast tracts of land, but how good is their claim to this land? Enter California in transition, experience insight into the lives of the Spaniards of California and the irreparable gulf between the cultures, and prepare for some surprising twists in one of Bower's deepest novels.
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Deep Enough, first published in 1956, is the adventure-filled autobiography of Frank Crampton in the mines, mining camps, and frontier towns of the American wild west in the early 1900s. At age 16, Crampton ran away from home, traveling west aboard freight trains in the company of hobos and 'bindle stiffs.' A fast learner, Crampton mastered hard-rock mining skills, and went on to work in most of the important western mining camps in Arizona, California,...
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"Despite the fact that his wedding is right around the corner, John Quincannon takes on what may be his riskiest assignment: going undercover into a gold mine to ferret out a gang hijacking high-grade ore before it reaches the surface ... John discovers the clever methods by which the scheme is being worked and exposes the conspirators ... following him leads to an unexpected rendezvous with Sabina, who has uncovered vital information about the thief's...
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"No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. But he should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot. Luna asks the boys to help her find the Lucky Cuss gold mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. But...
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Cripple Creek was the last of the open gold camps before mining fell to giant corporations. Its life was short and violent, but towns, cities, schools, railroads, institutions and financial dynasties grew upon its yield. Today a million tourists each year pour through the region, enjoying what Teddy Roosevelt called "the ride that bankrupts the English language" through Cripple's upper reaches, and imagining the gaudy, brawling days when the quiet,...
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Vertel Publishing
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2018.
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xxvii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
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"The Haile Gold Mine in rural South Carolina dates from 1827, a generation before the California Gold Rush, and contains the largest gold deposit in the Eastern United States. The mine has been an important gold producer under several owners in different economic periods, and for most of the past 190 years has been the largest gold producer in the South. In 2017, it reopened after a $700 million investment by Canadian and Australian companies. The...
11) Colorado gold
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Harrison Mandell had come to the Arizona outpost of Yuma, on the bug infested banks of the Colorado, to find out who was stealing money from an upriver mining company called Mina del Agua Mala. But from the moment a saloon girl came running naked into the dusty street, and a love-crazed Indian was driven off with a shotgun, Mandell knew this wasn't going to be an ordinary case. Between him and the mine was a hard, muddy stretch of the swirling Colorado...
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The definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rush
In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over...
13) Lando
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In Lando For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando left it. His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened...
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Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their
16) The gold rush
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Criterion collection volume 615
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MK2
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♭2012
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2 videodiscs (160 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
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A Cole and Hitch novel volume 10
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"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. ...
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Rhyolite Press
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2019.
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192 pages ; 23 cm
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"On October 20, 1890, Bob Womack struck gold and staked his El Paso mining claim at Poverty Gulch, which eventually ignited the greatest gold rush in Colorado's history. During his lifetime, over $250 million worth of gold was mined from the district, which Womack was instrumental in establishing. The story of the man and the gold discovery are told through firsthand accounts from Womack and other legendary figures."--Provided by publisher.
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University Press of Colorado
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[2022]
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xi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Mining Irish-American Lives uses previously uncovered sources--emigrant letters, hospital log books, private detective reports, and internment records--to tell the stories of Irish men and women who emigrated to mining towns, investigating their lives through the prism of their own experiences."--
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