Author: Jack Myers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539896562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The largest documented K.G.C. treasure find yet! The amazing but true story of how two Baltimore boys in 1934 unearthed 5,000 gold coins hidden by a secret Confederate organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Baltimore chapter of the K.G.C. fiercely opposed President Lincoln, and was involved in plots to bring about Lincoln's demise. John Wilkes Booth, who lived just four blocks from the treasure site, was one of the K.G.C.'s most ardent and outspoken members.
Knights' Gold
Author: Jack Myers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539896562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The largest documented K.G.C. treasure find yet! The amazing but true story of how two Baltimore boys in 1934 unearthed 5,000 gold coins hidden by a secret Confederate organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Baltimore chapter of the K.G.C. fiercely opposed President Lincoln, and was involved in plots to bring about Lincoln's demise. John Wilkes Booth, who lived just four blocks from the treasure site, was one of the K.G.C.'s most ardent and outspoken members.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539896562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The largest documented K.G.C. treasure find yet! The amazing but true story of how two Baltimore boys in 1934 unearthed 5,000 gold coins hidden by a secret Confederate organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Baltimore chapter of the K.G.C. fiercely opposed President Lincoln, and was involved in plots to bring about Lincoln's demise. John Wilkes Booth, who lived just four blocks from the treasure site, was one of the K.G.C.'s most ardent and outspoken members.
King's Gold
Author: Michael Jecks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847379036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
As the year 1326 draws to a close, London is in flames. King Edward II is a prisoner, and the forces of his vengeful queen, Isabella, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, are in the ascendant. The Bardi family, bankers who have funded the King, must look to their future with the Queen, steering a careful course between rival factions – if, that is, they can keep themselves alive. Others, too, find their loyalties torn. Guarding the deposed King on behalf of Mortimer, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and bailiff Simon Puttock find themselves entangled in a tightening net of conspiracy, greed, betrayal and murder.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847379036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
As the year 1326 draws to a close, London is in flames. King Edward II is a prisoner, and the forces of his vengeful queen, Isabella, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, are in the ascendant. The Bardi family, bankers who have funded the King, must look to their future with the Queen, steering a careful course between rival factions – if, that is, they can keep themselves alive. Others, too, find their loyalties torn. Guarding the deposed King on behalf of Mortimer, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and bailiff Simon Puttock find themselves entangled in a tightening net of conspiracy, greed, betrayal and murder.
Knights of the Golden Circle
Author: David C. Keehn
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807150053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In 1860, during their first attempt to create the Golden Circle, several thousand Knights assembled in southern Texas to "colonize" the northern Mexico. Due to insufficient resources and organizational shortfalls, however, that filibuster failed. Later, the Knights shifted their focus and began pushing for disunion, spearheading prosecession rallies, and intimidating Unionists in the South. They appointed regional military commanders from the ranks of the South's major political and military figures, including men such as Elkanah Greer of Texas, Paul J. Semmes of Georgia, Robert C. Tyler of Maryland, and Virginius D. Groner of Virginia. Followers also established allies with the South's rabidly prosecession "fire-eaters," which included individuals such as Barnwell Rhett, Louis Wigfall, Henry Wise, and William Yancy.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807150053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In 1860, during their first attempt to create the Golden Circle, several thousand Knights assembled in southern Texas to "colonize" the northern Mexico. Due to insufficient resources and organizational shortfalls, however, that filibuster failed. Later, the Knights shifted their focus and began pushing for disunion, spearheading prosecession rallies, and intimidating Unionists in the South. They appointed regional military commanders from the ranks of the South's major political and military figures, including men such as Elkanah Greer of Texas, Paul J. Semmes of Georgia, Robert C. Tyler of Maryland, and Virginius D. Groner of Virginia. Followers also established allies with the South's rabidly prosecession "fire-eaters," which included individuals such as Barnwell Rhett, Louis Wigfall, Henry Wise, and William Yancy.
Rebel Gold
Author: Warren Getler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439108943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
As a boy growing up in rural Arkansas, Bob Brewer often heard from his uncle and his great-uncle about a particular tree in the woods, the "Bible Tree," filled with strange carvings. Years later he would learn that this tree was carved with symbols associated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Civil Warera secret society that had buried gold coins and other treasure in various remote locations across the South and Southwest in hopes of someday funding a second War Between the States. These secret caches were guarded by sentinels, men whose responsibility it was to watch and protect these sites. To his astonishment, Bob discovered that both his uncle and his great-uncle had been twentieth-century sentinels, and that he had grown up near an important KGC treasure site. In Shadow of the Sentinel, Bob Brewer and investigative journalist Warren Getler tell the fascinating story of the Knights of the Golden Circle and the hidden caches the KGC established across the country. Brewer reveals how, with agonizing effort, he eventually deciphered the fiendishly complicated KGC codes and ciphers, which drew heavily on images associated with Freemasonry. (Many of the key KGC postCivil War leaders were Scottish Rite Masons, who used the cover of that secret fraternity to conduct their activities.) Using his knowledge of KGC symbolism to crack coded maps, Brewer has located several KGC caches and has recovered gold coins, guns, and other treasure from some of them. Shadow of the Sentinel is the most comprehensive account yet of the activities of the KGC after the Civil War and, indeed, into the 1900s. Getler and Brewer suggest that the clandestine network of KGC operatives was far wider than previously thought, and that it included Jesse James, the former Confederate guerrilla whose stage and bank robberies helped to fill KGC treasure chests. This is a rousing and provocative adventure that weaves together one man's personal quest with an intriguing, little-known chapter in America's hidden history.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439108943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
As a boy growing up in rural Arkansas, Bob Brewer often heard from his uncle and his great-uncle about a particular tree in the woods, the "Bible Tree," filled with strange carvings. Years later he would learn that this tree was carved with symbols associated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Civil Warera secret society that had buried gold coins and other treasure in various remote locations across the South and Southwest in hopes of someday funding a second War Between the States. These secret caches were guarded by sentinels, men whose responsibility it was to watch and protect these sites. To his astonishment, Bob discovered that both his uncle and his great-uncle had been twentieth-century sentinels, and that he had grown up near an important KGC treasure site. In Shadow of the Sentinel, Bob Brewer and investigative journalist Warren Getler tell the fascinating story of the Knights of the Golden Circle and the hidden caches the KGC established across the country. Brewer reveals how, with agonizing effort, he eventually deciphered the fiendishly complicated KGC codes and ciphers, which drew heavily on images associated with Freemasonry. (Many of the key KGC postCivil War leaders were Scottish Rite Masons, who used the cover of that secret fraternity to conduct their activities.) Using his knowledge of KGC symbolism to crack coded maps, Brewer has located several KGC caches and has recovered gold coins, guns, and other treasure from some of them. Shadow of the Sentinel is the most comprehensive account yet of the activities of the KGC after the Civil War and, indeed, into the 1900s. Getler and Brewer suggest that the clandestine network of KGC operatives was far wider than previously thought, and that it included Jesse James, the former Confederate guerrilla whose stage and bank robberies helped to fill KGC treasure chests. This is a rousing and provocative adventure that weaves together one man's personal quest with an intriguing, little-known chapter in America's hidden history.
Gold ...Then Iron
Author: Marty Duncan
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781589610989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The story of Operation Dragonlair, a 1938 quest by U.S., British and Japanese military officers to recover a golden talisman hidden in northern Minnesota.
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781589610989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The story of Operation Dragonlair, a 1938 quest by U.S., British and Japanese military officers to recover a golden talisman hidden in northern Minnesota.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Gold and Silver Coins of the World
Author: Alfred Morris Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Little Gold Knight
Author: Judy A. Ryder
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662414889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Little Gold Knight is a tale of a little princess who is destined to live in a faraway kingdom with her aunt and uncle because of her incredible beauty. Her father, the king, agrees it is best because he fears for her future. As time goes by, many large and fierce knights travel far and wide to claim the little princess’ hand in marriage, only to be met by a huge dragon who is guarding the castle. A little gold knight who happens to live nearby becomes captivated by beautiful singing he hears outside and decides to investigate. His humble approach and amazing strategy in dealing with the dragon are what defines this tale and wins the little princess’ heart.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662414889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Little Gold Knight is a tale of a little princess who is destined to live in a faraway kingdom with her aunt and uncle because of her incredible beauty. Her father, the king, agrees it is best because he fears for her future. As time goes by, many large and fierce knights travel far and wide to claim the little princess’ hand in marriage, only to be met by a huge dragon who is guarding the castle. A little gold knight who happens to live nearby becomes captivated by beautiful singing he hears outside and decides to investigate. His humble approach and amazing strategy in dealing with the dragon are what defines this tale and wins the little princess’ heart.
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Gold and Silver Coins of the World
Author: Andrew Madsen Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Blue and Gold
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description