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Author | : Bill Sheehy |
Publisher | : Robert Hale Ltd |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0719824540 |
Gold discovered out in California excites young Dan Bartlett, but life as a '49er isn't what he expected. Penniless, hungry and still innocent of life, he takes work holding a few horses, and when his new partner Tom Hodges yells at him to get in the saddle and ride, he naturally does as he's told. Then Dan realizes that they are riding stolen stock and, believing the law is behind them, they head into Nevada Territory, where Hodges remembers having seen a little valley, a place where they can start a ranch. But en route for the valley, they come across an abandoned gold mine. It doesn't matter it isn't California gold; any gold draws interest - and when Dan finds himself looking into the barrel of a Colt .45 is when he really begins to grow up.
Author | : Steve Boggan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780746970 |
Gold. For centuries people have been entranced by the riches it promises; thousands have gone wild in their search for it and surely there will be many more. After the Financial Crisis, the price of gold reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, particularly in the United States, people with no experience of prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went mining. In 2013, Steve Boggan decided he wanted a piece of the action, flying to San Francisco to join the 21st century's gold rush in a quest to understand the allure of the metal – and maybe find some for himself, too. Meeting a selection of colourful characters dreaming of striking it rich, he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting while learning about the history and economics of gold. He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers who trekked thousands of miles, risking death for the chance of unimaginable wealth. Written with Boggan's characteristic charm, Gold Fever is a hugely entertaining travelogue and a moving insight into a key period in the creation of modern America.
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Publisher | : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Prof. Malcolm Parry searches for gold in the hills of Wales.
Author | : Bill Sheehy |
Publisher | : Linford Western |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781444845433 |
Life as a prospector in the California gold fields isn't what Dan Bartlett expected. Penniless, hungry and na?ve, he takes work holding a few horses - then realizes that he's fallen in with a bunch of stagecoach robbers. Fleeing with one of them, Dan finds he's got a new partner in Tom Hodges. And when they discover an abandoned gold mine in the Sierra Nevadas, it looks like their ticket to buying the ranch they've been dreaming of - until Tom is shot dead and the law comes calling for Dan...
Author | : David Williams |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643364359 |
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 the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma. The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners. Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.
Author | : Joshua Paddison |
Publisher | : Heyday |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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California changed dramatically in the years between the founding of the first mission in 1769 and the 1848 gold rush. These eleven eyewitness accounts vividly describe the first European land expedition into an unknown territory; the spread of the missions; the rule of Spain and then Mexico; the rise and fall of California's Russian colony; the emergence of rancho culture; the semi-feudal empires of Vallejo and Sutter; and the arrival of Anglo-Americans as ship-deserters, settlers, traders, and ultimately -- perhaps inevitably -- the masters of California.
Author | : George Body |
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Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : J. S. Holliday |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520214019 |
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Author | : Alan Neil |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2013-12-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1491719303 |
Astronomy and some religions believe that life is a series of cycles. That is certainly reflected in the tale of Als long, adventurous life; the cycle spun him in many different directions over the years. Twelve Years down the Road shares a collection of stories and events detailing the diversity of Als unique life. From early childhood, he lived with his parents and two brothers in the woods of East Texas on a family farm surrounded by a national forest with a wildlife management area across the road. These stories reveal how he met the love of his life Betty, what he learned by delivering the Dallas Morning News, how he fared at his first job in the Mississippi Delta in the middle of KKK country, how he perceived his work at a Texas prison, and how he came to work in Siberia for a pipeline company. As Al reflects on the cycles his long and varied life, he shares the stories that shape a person and make a man a man.
Author | : Dion Mayne |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-09-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684707757 |
Captain Calder Velden, a ruthless seafaring servant of the Secret Dutch Alliance, had been summoned to serve his state in territories unknown. 1586AD his beloved homelands were under Spanish Rule, there seemed to be no answers on how the resistance could end the tyranny. Backed by incredible wealth, King Phillip II of Spain had established a World Power hell bent on conquering all known territories. The Dutch Alliance knew the Spanish had discovered an untapped source of wealth in the territories of Nueva Guinea. It was time to send their cut-snake captain to disrupt and cripple the southern supply of gold to the Spanish Treasury. Calder was in command of the new stealth ship, 'The Kharon', specifically made for the mission. Christened after the mythical ferry boat of the underworld, she was to pursue, raid and pillage enemy merchant ships along the trade route south of Bantam and leave no survivors!