Book Description
This is one man's true-life adventure--through archives and foothills--as he unravels the legend and the myth that have long hidden the truth about the mysterious mine.
Author : Charley F. Eckhardt
Publisher :
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : 9780932012340
This is one man's true-life adventure--through archives and foothills--as he unravels the legend and the myth that have long hidden the truth about the mysterious mine.
Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN :
V2 : Pirates' Gold and Other Tales.
Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874831788
Collects legends of buried treasure in Texas, including the gold of Haystack Mountain, a missing Incan hoard, and the Deer Island shipwrecks
Author : Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781585441969
This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 9780333782125
Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself...
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN :
Author : Gary L. Pinkerton
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1623494699
Trammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas. Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected with El Camino Real de los Tejas in Nacogdoches. By the early nineteenth century, Trammel’s Trace was largely a smuggler’s trail that delivered horses and contraband into the region. It was a microcosm of the migration, lawlessness, and conflict that defined the period. By the 1820s, as Mexico gained independence from Spain, smuggling declined as Anglo immigration became the primary use of the trail. Familiar names such as Sam Houston, David Crockett, and James Bowie joined throngs of immigrants making passage along Trammel’s Trace. Indeed, Nicholas Trammell opened trading posts on the Red River and near Nacogdoches, hoping to claim a piece of Austin’s new colony. Austin denied Trammell’s entry, however, fearing his poor reputation would usher in a new wave of smuggling and lawlessness. By 1826, Trammell was pushed out of Texas altogether and retreated back to Arkansas Even so, as author Gary L. Pinkerton concludes, Trammell was “more opportunist than outlaw and made the most of disorder.”
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785765906
An action-packed thriller by global sensation, Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror The highest prize comes at the highest price... Captain Bruce Curry has a simple enough mission: to lead his mercenary soldiers to rescue a town cut off by rebel fighting in the Belgian Congo. But events quickly take a turn for the worse as it becomes clear that the town's diamond supplies are the real focus of the mission. And where there is treasure, danger always seems to follow. It isn't long before Curry finds something even more valuable than diamonds in the town. Something he'll do anything to protect. And soon he discovers that his most deadly enemies might be those closest to him . . .
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429938935
Wild Justice by Wilbur Smith It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure--codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks. His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He's used to doing battle--and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph's victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride's every move--down to what could be his last one...
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499860277
An action-packed archaeological adventure from global bestseller Wilbur Smith “You should know of the legend. At a time when the rocks were soft and the air was misty, there was an abomination and an evil in this place which was put down by our ancestors. They placed a death curse upon these hills and commanded that this evil be cleaned from the earth and from the minds of men, forever.” A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs. Soon, a whispered curse and a chance encounter with a local tribe lead him to discover much more than city foundations. The curse, it seems, is real, and will link Ben, his oldest friend, and the woman they both love with a forgotten leader from two thousand years ago, in a city of glory and honour that subsequently disappeared without a trace. But what happened to that ancient civilisation? And what is it that connects that lost empire to Ben, and the violent dangers he must face in the present day?