Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author : Luke Cypher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425223208
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author : Charles E. Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1436326125
Fictional account of the death of the town of Fiddlehead.
Author : Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0708322670
Works which have sought to look specifically at the Welsh in Australia have been few in number and characterised by a concentration on prominent individuals and cultural/religious societies, thus excluding many facets of immigrant life. This book provides an analysis of the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century and considers all aspects of the Welsh immigrant experience. As its focus, the book has the Welsh migrant group as a whole, in one particular area, during one period of time, for ultimately it was the migrants themselves who were responsible for the strength or weakness of Welsh religious life, the success or failure of Welsh cultural institutions; they who decided whether or not to retain and transmit their national language if, indeed, they spoke it in the first place; they who chose whether or not to marry within their own group, to live amongst their own, to retain the ties of Welshness and pass on the values of the Old Country, or to attempt full and immediate integration; they who were miners or shop owners, abstainers or drunkards, law abiding or criminal. A true picture of Welsh immigrant life can only be obtained by considering the community in its entirety, to view it in the round, as it were. This work attempts to do just that and hopes to make some small contribution to the understanding of what it was to be one amongst the thousands of Welsh people who lived in a particular place at a certain time in a land so far from Wales.
Author : Kurt Dysan
Publisher : Kurt Dysan Westerns
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
It takes patience to catch an outlaw! Chasing an outlaw across New Mexico, Sam walks his lame horse into the gold mining town of Glenwood Springs. The outlaw came here too, but no one has seen him. Or will admit it. Hunting the man while his horse heals, he makes friends with the saloon owner, has a strange encounter with a luscious redhead, and finds his past life has sent a man gunning for him. When trouble breaks out, and bandits rob the freight company, no one is sure if the outlaw he's after is involved, but there's no local law, and stepping up to catch these gold-town bandits is one way to find out. You’ll love this action-packed adult western for its gritty realism. Get it now.
Author : Julia Conway Welch
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press For over a hundred years, the hopes, struggles, achievements and failures of mining in the West were played out against a backdrop of unrivaled beauty. This book chronicles the story of Silver City from the first discoveries of silver at nearby Jordan Creek in 1863 to the work of those who still labor to preserve its heritage.
Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher :
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
Author : Charles E. Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1477173072
Editor Fitzroy of the small-town newspaper Mine and Mill is dismayed to see the vitality and pioneer strength of his small town fade before the forces of violence, inexplicable deaths, corruption by bribery and acts of vengeance amongst the ordinary citizens of Fiddletown. he decides to log, to chart, as it were, in his paper and his diary the dismal decay of the early California gold town. He sometimes uses his poetic pen to capture the sad events, the inexplicable failures of ordinary people to show civility and compassion. "Gold! fear was not of tomorrow but of an irrecoverable sacrifice of home, honor and charity in the name of gold-a sacrifice and corruption of the conscience like mephisto the gold miners had traded their souls for the golden metal. That fear lingered beneath outward forms of pleasure and happiness, like a waiting spirit of death."
Author : Jan Cerney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439651299
Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Black Hills was part of the land reserved for them in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. However, the tide of prospectors seeking their fortune in the Black Hills was difficult to stem. Members of the 1874 Custer expedition, lead by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, found gold. In 1875, scientists Henry Newton and Walter Jenney conducted an expedition and confirmed the rumors. By 1876, the trickle of prospectors and settlers coming to the Black Hills was a flood. The US government realized that keeping the interlopers out was impossible, and in 1877 the Black Hills was officially opened to settlement. In this sequel to their Black Hills Gold Rush Towns book, the authors expand their coverage of Black Hills towns during the gold-rush era.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Rhode Island. Treasury Department
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Finance
ISBN :