Author: Daniel B. Woods
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265816028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings I intend to make this volume a miner's manual, in which he may find important directions relating to the various mining operations. Another motive with the writer is the desire to induce all who are doing well enough, who are liv ing within their means and laying by a little, to re main satisfied at home. The question is often asked, Who should go to the mines It is very sure that a man with a family depending upon his daily efforts should not go. He should not exhaust his slender means, and run himself in debt, with the hope of making himself independent in one or two years. Let such a one, who is inclined to do this, picture to himself his wife struggling alone with poverty or sickness, his children left without a father's presence and love to guide and protect, and himself a home less wanderer, subjected to the privations, hardships, and sickness incident to such a vagrant life. 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.
Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings (Classic Reprint)
Author: Daniel B. Woods
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265816028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings I intend to make this volume a miner's manual, in which he may find important directions relating to the various mining operations. Another motive with the writer is the desire to induce all who are doing well enough, who are liv ing within their means and laying by a little, to re main satisfied at home. The question is often asked, Who should go to the mines It is very sure that a man with a family depending upon his daily efforts should not go. He should not exhaust his slender means, and run himself in debt, with the hope of making himself independent in one or two years. Let such a one, who is inclined to do this, picture to himself his wife struggling alone with poverty or sickness, his children left without a father's presence and love to guide and protect, and himself a home less wanderer, subjected to the privations, hardships, and sickness incident to such a vagrant life. 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.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265816028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings I intend to make this volume a miner's manual, in which he may find important directions relating to the various mining operations. Another motive with the writer is the desire to induce all who are doing well enough, who are liv ing within their means and laying by a little, to re main satisfied at home. The question is often asked, Who should go to the mines It is very sure that a man with a family depending upon his daily efforts should not go. He should not exhaust his slender means, and run himself in debt, with the hope of making himself independent in one or two years. Let such a one, who is inclined to do this, picture to himself his wife struggling alone with poverty or sickness, his children left without a father's presence and love to guide and protect, and himself a home less wanderer, subjected to the privations, hardships, and sickness incident to such a vagrant life. 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.
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: Leonard L. Richards
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307277577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307277577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Rush for Riches
Author: J. S. Holliday
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520214021
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520214021
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Books of 1921-1925
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Books of 1912-
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Debow's Review
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
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Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Pages : 966
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