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Book Death Valley Scotty Told Me

Download or read book Death Valley Scotty Told Me written by Eleanor Jordan Houston and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death Valley Scotty Told Me

Download or read book Death Valley Scotty Told Me written by Eleanor Jordan Houston and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death Valley Scotty  the Fastest Con in the West

Download or read book Death Valley Scotty the Fastest Con in the West written by Hank Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Secret of Scotty s Castle Set

Download or read book The Secret of Scotty s Castle Set written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hornswogglers  Fourflushers   Snake Oil Salesmen

Download or read book Hornswogglers Fourflushers Snake Oil Salesmen written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and belles alike. This collection offers twenty-four tales of petty bandits, sleazy bunko artists, and conniving conmen and –women who traveled West to seek their fortunes by preying on the men and women who went before them to settle and explore. These stories of who they were, what they did, and why they are remembered for their deeds include ample and engaging historic illustrations of the shady characters at work and at play.

Book GhostWest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Ronald
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2005-02-03
  • ISBN : 9780806136943
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book GhostWest written by Ann Ronald and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our sense of place is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings, she reflects on how western history, literature, and lore continue to shape our visceral impressions of these sites. In chapters both lyrical and thoughtful, passionate and humorous, GhostWest covers sites in seventeen western states, including the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana, Willa Cather’s Nebraska prairies, and the Murrah Building bombing site in Oklahoma. Through these settings and their phantoms, the author mulls questions of why we find such ambience and artifacts so compelling. Volume 7 in the Literature of the American West series

Book Death Valley and the Amargosa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard E. Lingenfelter
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1988-01-11
  • ISBN : 9780520908888
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Death Valley and the Amargosa written by Richard E. Lingenfelter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-01-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history.

Book  Mysterious Scott   the Monte Cristo of Death Valley

Download or read book Mysterious Scott the Monte Cristo of Death Valley written by Orin S. Merrill and published by Community Printing & Publishing. This book was released on 1906 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death Valley National Park   Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Download or read book Death Valley National Park Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge written by Joseph Albino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dantes View one looks down into the Badwater Basin of Death Valley, with the Panamint Mountains across the Valley and Telescope Peak out of view to the left.

Book The Mystery at Death Valley

Download or read book The Mystery at Death Valley written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimi tells Christina and Grant a mystery story set in Death Valley, one of the most desolate places on Earth! There's Aunt Erin, a creepy castle in the middle of nowhere, a ghost (or not?), temperatures hotter than a Fourth of July firecracker, and more! LOOK what's inside this mystery - people, places, history and more! PLACES: Death Valley, CA: Badwater Crater. PEOPLE: Juliet Brier and her sons: Columbus, John, and Kirk Š Walter E. Scott or Š"Death Valley Scotty"Š Albert M. Johnson. HISTORY: The California Gold Rush Š The Valley of Burning Silence Š Sand Walking Company Š Survival tips in Death valley: what to bring, what to do in an emergency. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.3 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 140437 Lexile Measure: 780 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40

Book Scotty s Castle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert P. Palazzo
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 1467116750
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Scotty s Castle written by Robert P. Palazzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotty's Castle is a study in contrasts, much like its setting in Death Valley. While the castle is known worldwide and has been visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists, many myths persist. It is not a castle, nor was it owned by Walter E. Scott, known as "Death Valley Scotty." But the Spanish-style hacienda, also known as Death Valley Ranch, has always been linked to Scott. This book explores the fascinating history of Death Valley Scotty, Albert and Bessie Johnson (the true owners and builders of the castle), and the castle itself from construction to private living quarters to a tourist facility owned and operated by the National Park Service.

Book Git Along  Little Dogies

    Book Details:
  • Author : John I. White
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780252060700
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Git Along Little Dogies written by John I. White and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former singing cowboy himself, John I. White spent decades compiling information on cowboy and western songs and the artists, songwriters, and others attached to them. He also sought out and corresponded with a who's who of the genre, people like Badger Clark, Curley Fletcher, D. J. O'Malley, Romaine Lowdermilk, Will Barnes, Joseph Mills Hanson, and Owen Wister. In Git Along, Little Dogies, White draws on old friendships and his exhaustive files to bring readers the untold story of cowboy and western song. Wonderful anecdotes stand beside White's trademark attention to detail as he painstakingly establishes the time, place, and circumstance behind each song's origin and places the music within the evolution of popular song. He also looks at how radio and recording affected the genre and shows how the music crisscrossed with pop music but also with folk and the traditional Anglo-Irish tradition. From "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" to "Ten Thousand Cattle Straying," Git Along, Little Dogies ventures from cow camps to saloons to big-city radio studios as it lassos a vivid piece of American music history.

Book My Friends Call Me C C

Download or read book My Friends Call Me C C written by William Gardiner Hutson and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He seemed to work magic in the oil business as he established wildly successful ventures. California at the turn of the century was his stage and his adventures read like fiction until his luck seems to run out and he exits to China. Was he a huckster from the outset?

Book Adventuring

Download or read book Adventuring written by Hal Hays Mcclure and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Hays McClure always wanted adventure, and he found it the first time he left home; He was jailed on suspicion of spying for Nazi Germany- Texas of all places. After his Air Force service, he became a newspaper reporter and editor and then a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press before turning to shooting and producing independent Travel-Adventure films. His adventurous life has whisked him from the sound stages of Hollywood and the streets of Manhattan to the battlefields of the Middle East and the jungles of Asia. He has shot a dozen Travel-Adventure films, including the Story Book England, the Magic of Malaysia and the Echo of Hoofbeats-the Story of the Pony Express.

Book The Trailsman  304

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon Sharpe
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2007-02-06
  • ISBN : 1101010762
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Trailsman 304 written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The valley of death just got worse… Skye Fargo is riding through Death Valley when he comes across two bullet-riddled men. One lives long enough to point Fargo towards a cabin where an ex-federal marshal and his family lay butchered. But a prospector and a lovely lady survived the massacre. Mad Dog Burton and his gang came to the cabin to avenge the hanging of his brother, who the late marshal apprehended. He knows there are witnesses to the slaughter, and he’s not going to stop until they’re dead. But the Trailsman is about to show Mad Dog a different view of Death Valley—from beyond the grave…