Author: John Franklin Swift
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Robert Greathouse
Author: John Franklin Swift
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Classified Catalogue of the Public Library, of Fitchburg Mass
Author: Fitchburg (Mass.). Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
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A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America
Author: Charles L. Crow
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470999071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470999071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.
United States of America V. Greathouse
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Greathouse Family
Author: Alice Winters Greathouse Nelson
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Mimeographed typescript genealogy concerning the descendants of Harmon Greathouse, emigrant from Germany to Philadelphia, Pa.
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Mimeographed typescript genealogy concerning the descendants of Harmon Greathouse, emigrant from Germany to Philadelphia, Pa.
The Purcell Family of America Genealogical Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Bibliotheca Californiae
Author: California State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Instant Cities
Author: Gunther Paul Barth
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195018990
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195018990
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Bonanza King
Author: Gregory Crouch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
“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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
“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.