Author: Leland Feitz
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Category : Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Cripple Creek Times
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Category : Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Raymond Walter Seibert
Publisher: Advanced Concept Design
ISBN: 097997237X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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A work of historical fiction features the lives of the men and women who established the town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and mined its gold.

Author: Douglas Fetherling
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802080462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went. Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach. Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines. Originally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.

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Category : Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1

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Author: Frederic J. Athearn
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Category : Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Dayton Lummis
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865344833
Category : Western stories
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Dayton Lummis has lived a unique American life--as museum director in a mountain ghost town 9,500 feet high, as caretaker of an abandoned ranch surrounded by endless desert, as an inveterate wanderer pulled through vast empty landscapes that most Americans have never heard of, and will never see. And always-always--on his journeys, he takes back roads. The characters Lummis has met and interacted with along the way form a vivid rogues' gallery of oddballs, misfits and losers, and he knows how to tell their stories. As a highly opinionated (his friends say grumpy) observer himself, Lummis gives trenchant insight into a region and a way of life that helped shape America, but now seems to be vanishing forever. Born in New York City, raised on Philadelphia's Main Line and educated in the Ivy League, Dayton Lummis was nevertheless drawn inexorably into the most remote regions of the American West, where he has lived and worked. It all started when his parents divorced, and his eccentric father left the East Coast for a primitive little ranch in a then-isolated section of the Malibu Mountains, half a century before the Hollywood stars got there. On his first trip out West as a teen-ager, Dayton Lummis came to love America's most desolate regions. Fifty years later, his ardor still burns hot. He divides his time between Santa Fe and Pennsylvania, but his wanderlust is insatiable, and he is always ready to hit the road again.

Author: Bohdan S. Wynar
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Leland Feitz
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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