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Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1328618579 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375866191 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
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Author | : John Frederick Walker |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-01-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 155584913X |
“[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 | : Linda J. Bottjer |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 162584994X |
Fueled by the dream to strike it rich, prospectors flocked to California during the gold rush. Yet the harsh lifestyle and backbreaking work led many to early graves. Join author Linda Bottjer on a tour through Gold Country's most chilling--and true--haunted tales. Tales such as the hangman of Placerville, whose distinctive wheeze is a sign of his continued presence. Or the Georgetown miner whose unrequited love for a much younger lady of the night finds him still pining for her in death as he did in life. And in Coloma, the ghost of James Marshall is said to dwell on the lonely hilltop where his cabin and monument now stand. These stories, and many others, capture the ghostly spirit of Gold Country.
Author | : Nancy Roberts |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611173604 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1663909946 |
The Mystery Inc. gang visits a guest ranch that is haunted by an old prospector.
Author | : Roberta Eaton Cheadle |
Publisher | : Tsl Publications |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-11-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781913294946 |
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 | : Louise Arnold |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2007-10-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0689875878 |
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 | : Oren Arnold |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1839740213 |
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.