Journeys to the Land of Gold


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Collected here for the first time ever are the surviving eyewitness accounts of the Bozeman's Trail's civilian emigrants: twenty-four diaries written during the journey and nine reminiscences prepared afterward. These accounts describe life on the West's last great emigrant trail, the shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, from 1863 until 1866, when the route was closed by "Red Cloud's War." Ample introductions, extensive annotation, historical illustrations, and detailed maps enrich this oversized, two-volume compendium.




Mexican Gold Trail


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The Gold House


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The Gold House, The Lies, The Thefts proves that millions of dollars in gold were stolen from the Noss treasure shortly after 1958, thefts carried out with the knowledge of certain individuals in the military at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. These thefts were cloaked with a top-secret classification to mask the criminal nature of the military’s activities. This highly documented investigation provides overwhelming evidence that should be known to every American who cares about their country and the ideals upon which this nation was founded. The most highly documented account that gold was illegally removed from the Noss treasure occurred during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend in November 1973 when 36.5 tons of gold was stolen from the treasure; evidence points to President Richard Nixon’s involvement. As startling as Nixon’s alleged connection to the mega-million-dollar theft was, so too was the elaborate cover-up in 1974 by Major General Arthur H. Sweeney, Jr., White Sands’ commanding general at the time. Evidence that the 1973 extraction occurred include: 1) An FBI document regarding the theft disclosed, “...two individuals at The First National Bank in Albuquerque were handling the sale of the gold and that Handy & Harman’s secondary refinery in El Monte, California, was handling the sale of the gold overseas.” 2) Warehouse receipts describing a large number of steel drums containing the stolen gold, backed up by an FBI report describing the contents of the drums as “ingots.” On four of the seventy-two steel drums the “Warehouse Receipt Holder” was “FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN ALBUQUERQUE.” 3) A series of nine money-laundering agreements used to convert the stolen gold and disguise its origin. 4) Evidence that a CIA operative was used as the courier to move the stolen gold out of the United States. 5) The involvement of top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman. 6) The cover-up of the theft by agent Herb Greathouse of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These allegations are supported by a large number of letters, official government documents, affidavits, money-laundering agreements, and many interviews.




Mourt's Relation


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Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.




The Oregon Trail


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A new American journey.




The Oregon Trail


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Path of Empire


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Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco—a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California. In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1848 and 1856, Panama saw the building, by a U.S. company, of the first transcontinental railroad in world history, the final abolition of slavery, the establishment of universal manhood suffrage, the foundation of an autonomous Panamanian state, and the first of what would become a long list of military interventions by the United States.Using documents found in Panamanian, Colombian, and U.S. archives, McGuinness reveals how U.S. imperial projects in Panama were integral to developments in California and the larger process of U.S. continental expansion. Path of Empire offers a model for the new transnational history by unbinding the gold rush from the confines of U.S. history as traditionally told and narrating that event as the history of Panama, a small place of global importance in the mid-1800s.




The Gold House


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The Gold House Trilogy is a highly documented account of never-before-known historic facts concerning Victorio Peak, a small mountain located on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The story begins in the 1930s at a place called the Hembrillo Basin, a rugged desert area in New Mexico at a time when Doc and Ova Noss discovered a vast treasure there, a discovery unmatched in the northern hemisphere. The events that took place from the early days of the discovery until Doc Noss was murdered in 1949, up to and including 1955 when the military at White Sands Missile Range evicted Ova Noss from the treasure site are told in great detail. Ova Noss' eviction was followed by a string of thefts by the military, a windfall for select individuals at White Sands Missile Range who helped themselves to the gold, a never-ending payday for those who plundered it. Summary of the events detailed in The Gold House, The Discovery: 1) The Lorius-Heberer murders in 1935; 2) Doc's arrests, imprisonment, release and unconditional Pardon by Governor Clyde Tingley on March 3, 1936; 3) The discovery of the treasure in 1937; 4) Efforts to remove the treasure; 5) The formation of the Cheyenne Mining Company and the betrayals that followed; 6) The lawyers who represented Doc and Ova's mining company; 7) The tricks played by the Director of the Office of Silver & Gold Operations Leland Howard, the Director of the Mint Nellie Ross, and the presence of the Secret Service and the FBI; 8) Doc's renewed efforts to lift the treasure, his strange two-year disappearance, his return to Victorio Peak and his murder by Charley Ryan; 9) The roles played by Doc's business partners in the Cheyenne Mining Company, attorneys William Scoggin and Ben Newell and their roles in the murder trial of Charley Ryan as judge and defense attorney respectively; 10) Ryan's acquittal, and: 11) Ova's struggle to lift the treasure and her forced eviction from the site by the military in 1955.




Bound for Montana


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Bound for Montana is an abridgement of the prize-winning two volume series, Journeys to the Land of Gold. The abridgement includes diary and journal excerpts from travelers moving overland in the 1860s, bound for Montana.




Room


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In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award® nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.