Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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ISBN: 9783337572136
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Pages : 688

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Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: Massachusetts
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Pages : 2246

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Author: Gregory Crouch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.

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Pages : 1106

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Author: Hubert Howe 1832-1918 Bancroft
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360826493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656210879
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Excerpt from Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth, Vol. 6: Historical Character Study Routes of the Aztec Commercial Caravans - Their Pathways and Sus pension Bridges - Pack-trains of the Spaniards - Improvement of Roads - Vera Curz and Mexico Railway - Cost of the Enterprise Mexican National - The International - Telegraphic Service - Mexi can Central - Tehuantepec Ship Railway - Pacific Coast Railway and Other Projects - Highways of the Mayas - Central American and Isthmus Railways - Ship-canal Projects - The Panama Isthmus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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ISBN: 9783337572129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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