Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines written by Henry DeGroot and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines written by Henry De Groot and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines written by Henry DeGroot and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines written by Henry De Groot and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines with a description of the soil climate and mineral resources of the country east of the Sierra A facsimile of the edition published at San Francisco in 1860 written by Henry DE GROOT and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Mining Region Photographs Reduced from Originals written by Edward Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Mining Regions Photographs Reduced from Originals Twenty five Numbers written by Edward Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Washoe Mining Region Photographs reduced from the originals twenty five numbers Panorama of Washoe written by Edward Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Directory of Nevada Territory written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occidental Sketches written by Benjamin Cummings Truman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book The Bonanza King written by Gregory Crouch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.
Download or read book History of the Big Bonanza written by Dan De Quille and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book of the discovery and mining of silver and gold on the Comstock Lode by the editor of the Territorial Enterprise.
Download or read book Silver Kings written by Oscar Lewis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of readers remember with pleasure Oscar Lewis’s fine book on the Western railroad robber barons, The Big Four. Silver Kings is a companion piece, dealing as it does with the big four of the Nevada Comstock Lode, one of the greatest of all silver mines. These were really fabulous men who led strangely fascinating lives. John W. Mackay (the father of Clarence Mackay), best known of the four, built up the Postal Telegraph and Commercial Cable systems. His wife, Marie Hungerford, for years after her marriage saw little of America, but kept the society of Paris and London agog. James G. Fair was a master mechanic and one of the shrewdest of financiers—of all the Comstock’s conspicuous figures easily the least admired, a fact of which he was aware and which he regarded with complete indifference. He became a United State Senator and his elder daughter, Tessie, married Herman Oelrichs, then a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and member of the prominent New York and Newport family. James Clair Flood’s great mansion atop Nob Hill in San Francisco is now the Pacific Union Club. William S. O’Brien, Flood’s partner, was the most shadowy of the quartet. It’s a rich field that Mr. Lewis has mined, and his story, which never lags, is set against the stunning background of the Virginia City of the seventies as well as the San Francisco of that era. The result is a really magnificent piece of authentic Americana.
Download or read book Early Tales and Sketches Volume 1 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-12-12 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to "write but little for periodicals hereafter." In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description—the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals.
Download or read book History of Utah written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1890-01-01 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft History of Utah written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Pacific States of North America written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.
