Download or read book Gold Dust on His Shirt written by Irene Howard and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Dust on His Shirt is an evocative telling of the experience of a Scandinavian immigrant family of hard-rock miners at the turn of the century and up to World War II. Based on fascinating historical research, these are tales of arriving in "Amerika," blasting the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, work in the mines, and domestic life and labour struggles in company towns throughout British Columbia. Part family history, part economic and social history, Gold Dust on His Shirt is an intriguing look at life on the industrial frontier, the world of immigrant workers and the rise of unions such as the Wobblies. This remarkable and provocative tale of a family, region and era references a number of broader social and political issues.
Download or read book Gold Dust written by Ibrahim al-Koni and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Imagine Cormac McCarthy's savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel.”—The Independent Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society. Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Libyan Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion through thirst, disease, lust, and loneliness. Alone in the desert, haunted by the prophetic cave paintings of ancient hunting scenes and the cries of jinn in the night, Ukhayyad awaits the arrival of his pursuers and their insatiable hunger for blood and gold.
Download or read book Sagebrush or Gold Dust written by H.S. Haskell and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the true story of one pioneer families' journey to Oregon and the establishment of a homestead ranch near Auburn, Oregon; site of the famed 1861 Gold Strike by Henry Griffin. This novel details the actual accounts of the Haskell family in their struggle to survive their new life in Eastern Oregon. This narrative details a long running feud between the patriarch, Monroe Galusha Haskell, and his oldest son, Charlie Haskell. Monroe was secure in his supreme wisdom that ranching was Charlie's destiny. But he locked horns endlessly with his son whose independent spirit and high roller faith convinced him that he'd find his destiny in becoming the owner of a Gold Mine. Historic accounts of cattle rustling, crippling droughts, hard drinking, deadly blizzards, murders and lynchings, the sudden deaths of five family members, a traumatic accident that leaves a daughter with bouts of temporary insanity and a grudge against chickens, and finally two grandsons who enlist in World War One. The youngest sees action in the biggest battles with American General Blackjack Pershing and pays dearly for it. At times sad and then humorous these tales define what it is about us as people that makes us most interesting; our virtues and flaws; in short, our humanity.
Download or read book Gold Dust written by Emily Krokosz and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Katy O'Connell saves Jonah Armstrong from a bar fight, he decides to hire her as a guide on his journey to the Klondike. But Jonah had thought Katy to be a boy, and when he finds out the truth, their relationship takes a new direction.
Download or read book The Savage Curse written by Jory Sherman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing that he is indestructible and unstoppable, Ollie Hobart, a murderer and a thief, joins a band of renegade Navajos to continue raiding every mine in Tucson, but he doesn't count on John Savage, who, fueled by revenge, has sworn that Hobart will not leave Tucson alive. Original.
Download or read book Gold in the Black Hills written by Watson Parker and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innocence and Gold Dust written by Frances Webb and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Eutropius' mother dies while giving birth to him, the newborn is raised by a shepherd and his wife. The shepherd castrates the baby to increase his worth and sells him into slavery, where Eutropius eventually becomes part of a young woman's dowry. He develops a close relationship with his new mistress, Sophie, until he is caught pandering and is released from service without financial support. Eutropius' struggle with his lack of social and sexual power translates into lust for political power and wealth. He is determined to overcome his outcast status and concocts devious schemes (switching brides on the Emperor and kidnapping a bishop) to reach a powerful position in society. However, as he works his way up, public outrage over such a high standing for a eunuch threatens to knock him back down again. With physical violence and verbal insults raging against him, is it possible for him to keep everything he has earned? After 18 years of teaching, author Frances Webb lives near Philadelphia and is enjoying retirement. Webb's research took her to Turkey, as well as reading the ancient poets, writers, and historians. Innocence and Gold Dust is alive with real history. Many scenes of historical events surround crazy emperors, greedy politicos, well-meaning bishops, and womanizing generals. It all happens in the latter half of the fourth century in a place and at time not often frequented in fiction.
Download or read book The Cave of Gold written by Everett McNeil and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cave of Gold is an action and adventure story with a dash of humor set during the California gold rush of 1849. When two boys get their hands on a map to a mysterious cave said to be filled with gold, they set off in search of riches. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Download or read book Gold written by Stewart Edward White and published by Musson, [191-?]. This book was released on 1913 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Annual Register Or A View of the History and Politics of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. After 1815 the usual form became a number of chapters on Great Britain, paying particular attention to the proceedings of Parliament, followed by chapters covering other countries in turn, no longer limited to Europe. The expansion of the History came at the expense of the sketches, reviews and other essays so that the nineteenth-century publication ceased to have the miscellaneous character of its eighteenth-century forebear, although poems continued to be included until 1862, and a small number of official papers and other important texts continue to be reproduced.
Download or read book The Annual Register Or A View of the History Politics and Literature for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oregon Historical Quarterly written by Oregon Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wood carver of Lympus written by Mary Ella Waller and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young farmer of the Green Mountains, crippled for life by a falling log, becomes a wood carver.
Download or read book THE WOOD CARVER OF LYMPUS written by M. E. WALLER and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
