Author: James Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935182682
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This edition has all new maps and an added chapter on the Kern River area. Good introduction to the gold bearing areas. Authentic and interesting reading for any gold seeker or history buff. Illustrated.
Where to Find Gold in Southern California
Author: James Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935182682
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This edition has all new maps and an added chapter on the Kern River area. Good introduction to the gold bearing areas. Authentic and interesting reading for any gold seeker or history buff. Illustrated.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935182682
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This edition has all new maps and an added chapter on the Kern River area. Good introduction to the gold bearing areas. Authentic and interesting reading for any gold seeker or history buff. Illustrated.
Gold districts of California
Author: William B. Clark
Publisher: William B. Clark
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Gold districts of California
Publisher: William B. Clark
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Gold districts of California
Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Detecting for Gold
Author: Ray Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990771500
Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The author provides advice and information on gold prospecting, including equipment, mining around various geological formations and locations, safety tips, and personal experiences.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990771500
Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The author provides advice and information on gold prospecting, including equipment, mining around various geological formations and locations, safety tips, and personal experiences.
Placer Gold Deposits of the Sierra Nevada
Author: Paul D. Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Now available in one volume, the major placer locations of the Sierra Nevada, taken from the original publications of that region. Complete with maps and descriptive text.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Now available in one volume, the major placer locations of the Sierra Nevada, taken from the original publications of that region. Complete with maps and descriptive text.
Bodie’s Gold
Author: Marguerite Sprague
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874178681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie’s largest boom ended ust over twenty years later, but the town survived into the twentieth century supported by a few small but steady mines. Mining ended with World War II. What remained of the town became a state park in 1964. In Bodie’s Gold, author Marguerite Sprague uncovers the original sources of information whenever possible, from the first mining claims to interviews with former Bodieites. Enhanced with numerous historic photographs and extracts from newspapers of that period, as well as by the reminiscences of former residents, the book offers a fascinating account of life in a Gold Rush boomtown.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874178681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie’s largest boom ended ust over twenty years later, but the town survived into the twentieth century supported by a few small but steady mines. Mining ended with World War II. What remained of the town became a state park in 1964. In Bodie’s Gold, author Marguerite Sprague uncovers the original sources of information whenever possible, from the first mining claims to interviews with former Bodieites. Enhanced with numerous historic photographs and extracts from newspapers of that period, as well as by the reminiscences of former residents, the book offers a fascinating account of life in a Gold Rush boomtown.
California Notes
Author: Charles Beebe Turrill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley.
Where to Find Gold in Northern California
Author: James Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889786056
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new book reveals the secrets of the best gold-bearing areas in Northern California with maps, photos, illustrations and old tales of those who tried their luck before you. Learn about modern tools, methods and equipment from a veteran prospector and treasure hunter.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889786056
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new book reveals the secrets of the best gold-bearing areas in Northern California with maps, photos, illustrations and old tales of those who tried their luck before you. Learn about modern tools, methods and equipment from a veteran prospector and treasure hunter.
Gold Mining in North Carolina
Author: Richard F. Knapp
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN: 9780865262850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the history of gold mining in North Carolina from that discovery to the twentieth century. The authors present case histories of John Reed and his mine and of the Gold Hill mining district in Rowan County, along with material on other gold mining activity in the state.
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN: 9780865262850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the history of gold mining in North Carolina from that discovery to the twentieth century. The authors present case histories of John Reed and his mine and of the Gold Hill mining district in Rowan County, along with material on other gold mining activity in the state.
California Gold and Gem Maps - Northern
Author: Ralph Preston
Publisher: Northwest Distributors
ISBN: 9780965755894
Category : California, Northern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Historical and current maps of Northern California locating gold and gems.
Publisher: Northwest Distributors
ISBN: 9780965755894
Category : California, Northern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Historical and current maps of Northern California locating gold and gems.