Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men
Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
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Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1882
Category : California
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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1881
Category : California
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Author : Brenda Wahler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1540261344
The Making of a Copper King! Born in 1841 to tenant farmers, Marcus Daly came from rural Ireland to New York as a boy. Having learned the big city’s harsh lessons, he traveled west to the gold and silver mining camps of California, Nevada, Utah and Montana. Then, a spectacular discovery in the Anaconda mine him one of Montana’s famed Copper Kings. Yet, his early life remained shrouded in myth. Famed for his machinations in state politics and shaping Butte into the “Richest Hill on Earth,” his path from farm boy to mining king has been overlooked. For the first time, author Brenda Wahler brings his secretive and formative early years to life.
Author : Sandra E. Bonura
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496235118
Sandra E. Bonura tells the overlooked yet genuine rags-to-riches story of Claus Spreckels and his pioneering role in developing the sugar industry in the United States and the kingdom of Hawai'i.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1886
Category : British Columbia
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Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1886
Category : British Columbia
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Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1884
Category : British Columbia
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Author : Scott Martelle
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1613737327
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Short, slender, and soft-spoken with no military background—he trained as a doctor before becoming a lawyer and then a newspaper editor—Walker was an unlikely leader of rough-hewn men and adventurers. But in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua. Neighboring governments saw Walker as a risk to the region and worked together to drive him out—efforts aided, incongruously, by the United States' original tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Walker's Wars is a story of greedy dreams and ambitions, the fate of nations and personal fortunes, and the dark side of Manifest Destiny, for among Walker's many goals was to build his own empire based on slavery. This little-remembered story from US history is a cautionary tale for all who dream of empire.