Download or read book Sierra Gold Fever written by D. Michael O'Haver and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Miller has left his fiancee behind and set off to the goldfields of California to make his fortune and establish a home for his bride-to-be. But when an explosion happens at one of the mines, Jason's plans for the future take a dramatic turn. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Dedmore is tired of waiting back in Iowa. Taking matters into her own hands, Elizabeth decides to join a wagon train, along with her brother, Bill, and set off in search of her fiancé. But the traveling may be a bit rougher and dangerous than she first imagined. As the two lost lovers strive to reunite, they will both have to learn some things about themselves and about the God Who created them for each other.
Download or read book Sierra written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of gold in the Sierras triggered the greatest migration in United States history, the gold rush of 1849. In this sweeping story of the rush to California by land and by sea, four young people discover what gold fever can do to a person's beliefs and values. But in the process, they find that there is one thing more important than gold: love.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Steve Boggan and published by Oneworld Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights in the wake of the global financial crisis. Clueless, and with neither equipment nor experience, Boggan flew to California and followed in the footsteps of the '49ers', miners who fuelled the original Gold Rush of 1849. Along the way, terrified of bears, bubonic plague and rattlesnakes, he met a cast of colourful characters, including a former Navy Seal who risked his life every day and a man who once went on the run for five years in the mistaken belief that he was wanted by the law. In charming and witty prose, gold-fevered Boggan recaptures the excitement, the hopes and disappointments of the hunt, going beyond the story of modern prospectors to give a moving insight into the birth of modern America.
Download or read book Sierra a Novel of the California Gold Rush written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof. Malcolm Parry searches for gold in the hills of Wales.
Download or read book Sierra Gold written by John Hubchenko and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young couple hopes to resolve their differences by re-locating to the west coast. Frank, is a well-off real estate developer. Once an athlete, his self-indulgent lifestyle has relegated his sports to golf and boating, and he is not as fit as he once was. His wife Sally has become disillusioned by his lust for money and expensive toys. They travel to the Sierra Nevada to find an amenable co-existence in the mountains, but Frank gets lured into gold-fever by an old miner who spins yarns for drinks. Sally coaxes Frank to venture into the wilderness and curtail her husband's predilection toward cupidity but small band of bandits who have the impression that they know of a stash of gold in the hills, follows them. Friends that they have made - storekeepers at a country mercantile, a lady wrangler, an out of jurisdiction sheriff, the old miner himself, and by an unseen ally.The unseen ally is an indigenous person who is a legend to the tribes. He is a nomad who ranges the vast Sierra Nevada wilderness.
Download or read book The Best of the Gold Country written by Don W. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sierra Gold written by 3052 John Serge Hubchenko and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young couple tries to resolve their differences by re-locating.This is the story about the adventures of a young eastern couple who are looking for a change; they head west, to the young mountains of the Sierra Nevada in California. The husband is a well-off real estate developer, and his wife has become disillusioned by his lust for money. They travel to the Sierra Nevada to find an amenable co-existence in the mountains, but the husband gets lured into gold-fever by an old miner who spins yarns for drinks.Jet planes have just started carrying commercial passengers, and radio was the only option for communication if the phone lines over the mountains were severed in one of the many magnificent storms that developed over those mountains. It was a time more closely aligned with the old west and the far west. There are roads and cars, but not on the scale of today. The information age was yet to come.As in all societies, there are good guys and bad guys, and it was harder back then for the good guys to keep track of the bad guys. The couple ventures into the wilderness. A group of bandits who have the impression that they know of a stash of gold in the hills follow them.So it came to pass that the lives of the young couple became intertwined with people who had nefarious pasts. On the other side of the ledger, the couple found allies in several hearty individuals. A sheriff, a lady wrangler, a country couple, and an ancient 'Indian' play into the story, as well as the old miner who gave them the map to the gold mine. The wilderness of the Sierra Nevada was the stage where their opera would play.
Download or read book The Best of the Gold Country excerpts for Madera County written by Don W. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by George W. Groh and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wells Fargo Book of the Gold Rush written by Margaret Rau and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the California gold rush, from its beginning in 1848, through its peak, to the 1849 recession that brought about its end, this book presents a fascinating account of "The Gold Rush" with black-and-white photographs from the Wells Fargo Archives.
Download or read book They Saw the Elephant written by JoAnn Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Gold Fever Tales from the California Gold Rush written by Rosalyn Schanzer and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California s Gold Rush Country written by Barbara Braasch and published by Johnston Associates International. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.
