Author : Rusty Goe
Publisher : Southgate Coins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Coinage
ISBN : 9780974616902
A great trivia book for numismatists, these true stories of those who work at the Comstock mines near the Carson City, Nevada, mint, are accompanied by tales of the behind-the-scenes political maneuverings that have influenced the success or failure of operations at the local coinage facility.
Author : Rusty Goe
Publisher : Southgate Coins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Carson City (Nev.)
ISBN : 9780974616933
This biography of the fourth Superintendent of the Carson City Mint (1874-1885) traces Crawford's life from his birth in Kentucky; to his formative years in Illinois; to his prospecting years in California's Gold Rush Country; to his early years in Nevada's Lyon County; culminating in his tenure at the Carson City Mint. The book provides a panoramic view of the sweeping history of Nevada's connection to California's Gold Rush era; with an in-depth look into life in the Silver State's northwestern region from 1863 to 1885. Filled with never-before-presented facts about James Crawford and the Carson City Mint, the 650-page book is linked with stories about some of Nevada's most prominent historical figures and many contemporary events occurring in the United States and contains hundreds of references to coins struck at the Carson City Mint.
Author : Rusty Goe
Publisher :
Page : 2500 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780974616940
Rusty Goe's new three-volume set, The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, provides a time-capsule glimpse of all the knowledge available for discovery about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that have survived from that place leading up to the 150th anniversary (2020) of the mint's opening in January 1870. Just about anything anyone would want to know about the mint and its coins can be found in these three volumes. Three hardback volumes, 8.5" x 11" in dimensions. The page count for all three volumes is approximately 2,500. Color images fill numerous pages; at least one zoomed image (obverse and reverse) of all 111 date-denominations with the "CC" mintmark. Historical Setting narratives are included for every year of the Carson City Mint's coinmaking years (1870 - 1893). Coin Commentary sections provide extensive studies of all Carson City silver and gold date-denominations; surviving population data, pedigrees, pricing, and auction appearances are all updated as of year-end 2018. This three-volume set provides all that everyone wants to know about the Carson City Mint and its coins. The Confident Carson City Coin Collector will serve as the definitive reference work about the Carson City Mint and its coins for decades to come.
Author : Janet Jones
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1614236801
Journey through this Nevada town filled with nineteenth-century history—and hauntings. Includes photos! The Kit Carson Trail in Carson City, Nevada, is haunted by history: The footsteps of Abe Curry, the first superintendent of the Nevada City Mint, still echo in the halls of the building. Mark Twain’s niece, Jennie Clemens, died of a fever when she was nine; her spirit peeks from the upstairs window of the family home and is said to visit the Lone Mountain Cemetery. In the 1800s, V&T Railroad baron Duane Bliss built his home on a burial ground. Today, the house occasionally chimes with laughter and music as spirits gather in the parlor in evening finery . . . Take a walk through Carson City’s haunted history with author Janet Jones and meet the spirits that linger in the city's historic district. “Explores 19 legends of haunting in Nevada’s capital city: Historic mansions; hotels; the Stewart Indian school; the Virginia and Truckee Railroad and more.” —Reno Gazette-Journal
Author : Rae Carson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062691953
“Any Sign of Life is a heartbreaking story filled with courage, friendship, and personality. Paige Miller is the perfect team-up buddy in an apocalypse. I was with her when she lost everything, and stood right next to her when she took it all back.”—Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the War Arts Saga “A timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A smart, suspenseful thriller. Totally un-put-down-able.”—Kirkus Reviews When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town—maybe in the whole world—she must rely on hope, trust, and her own resilience. A harrowing and pulse-pounding survival story from New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. Any Sign of Life is a must-have for readers of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman’s Dry. Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future—they’re gone. But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone. New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Power’s Wilder Girls and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.
Author : Michael Carson
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"In the environs of Liverpool is a boys' Catholic school, and in that school is a fourteen-year-old Martin 'Wobbles' Benson-- an extraordinary adolescent fiercely unhappy with being fat and with the mysterious urges he explores during sessions of 'The Rude Club'-- fumbling encounters with two other boys that drive him to confession with dismal regularity. Benson, it seems, has two conflicting passions: the Holy Mother Church and other boys. So it's not unexpected that he chooses to enter St. Finbar's Seminary. But what happens there will be a stunning surprise to jolly good Benson. For here in a naughty and hilarious coming-of-age and coming-out story, written with a tone and intensity reminiscent of James Joyce's Dubliners, we witness a boy's own story-- of loneliness, choices, and sexual desire." -- Back cover.
Author : Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0771025386
A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.
Author : Peter B. Mires
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1439664455
Carson City has the distinction of being one of the least populated state capitals in the nation, but its contributions to Nevada's history are anything but diminutive. Set against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it's a quintessential Wild West town. The gold and silver riches of the nearby Comstock Lode left a legacy that includes the Carson City Mint, one of only nine mints ever to exist in the United States, and the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, which still snakes through the hills. Residents once flocked to the Carson Opera House to take in a show and to the local racetrack to bet on the horses. Author Peter B. Mires explores the city's legacies, brick by locally quarried sandstone brick.
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780794843977
The U.S. Mint is the source of the little copper, silver, and gold objects of material culture and value that numismatists collect, study, and catalog. It is the sole manufacturer of the nation's legal-tender coinage, and its products are used every day by millions of Americans nationwide. As a repository its facilities safeguard more than $300 billion in national assets. It employs nearly 2,000 people, including its own police force. This unique book unearths a treasure trove of numismatic knowledge, including the history of the Philadelphia Mint and every Mint branch, plus private and territorial mints; information on historical and modern minting procedures; a study and price guide of historic medals and other collectibles commemorating the Mint; data on every director of the Mint and superintendents for every branch; and illustrated behind-the-scenes looks at the modern Mint and its facilities.
Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : Sylph Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9781909631038
This cahier unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, encouraging readers to experience them alongside and illuminating each other. Variations on the Right to Remain Silent is an essay on the stakes involved when translation happens, ranging from Homer through Joan of Arc to Paul Celan; it includes the author s seven translations of a poetic fragment from the Greek poet Ibykos. By Chance the Cycladic People is a poem about Cycladic culture where the order of the lines has been determined by a random number generator. The cahier is illustrated by Lanfranco Quadrio."
