The Bonanza Mines And The Bonanza Kings Of California
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The Bonanza Mines And The Bonanza Kings Of California
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Author : Squire Pierce Dewey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
The Bonanza Mines And The Bonanza Kings Of California written by Squire Pierce Dewey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Bonanza Mines (Nev.) categories.
The Bonanza King
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Author : Gregory Crouch
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2019-06-04
The Bonanza King written by Gregory Crouch and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with History categories.
“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.
Last Bonanza Kings
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Author : Ferol Egan
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2009-08-28
Last Bonanza Kings written by Ferol Egan and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-28 with History categories.
Much of the wealth from the great mining bonanzas of the nineteenth century American West flowed into San Francisco and made possible the growth of the city and some fabulous personal fortunes. Among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Bonanza Kings were William Bowers Bourn I and his son and successor, William Bowers Bourn II. Their wealth came from rich mines in Nevada’s Comstock Lode and Treasure Hill and California’s Sierra foothills, as well as astute business ventures in the booming port city of San Francisco. Last Bonanza Kings tells their story with all the colorful detail and sweeping sense of epic drama that the characters and their times demand, setting them into the turbulent context of an age of rampant financial and civic growth, major technological advances in mining, lavish philanthropy, and opulent personal lifestyles.
History Of The Big Bonanza
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Author : Dan De Quille
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
History Of The Big Bonanza written by Dan De Quille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Comstock Lode (Nev.) categories.
The classic book of the discovery and mining of silver and gold on the Comstock Lode by the editor of the Territorial Enterprise.
The Bonanza Kings
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Author : Richard H. Peterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Bonanza Trail
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Author : Muriel Sibell Wolle
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-03-12
The Bonanza Trail written by Muriel Sibell Wolle and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with History categories.
THIS is the story of the men who sought for gold, from California to the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains. Mrs. Wolle writes colorfully of the unbelievable privations the men endured in penetrating the fastnesses of the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; of the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the Indian-infested Black Hills of South Dakota. It is doubtful if the vividness of this phase of history will ever fade for American readers. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Mrs. Wolle finds her excitement continually renewed, as she stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust and struggle. It is this excitement which she conveys to her readers both in the text and in the more than one hundred on-the-spot drawings which show the towns and town sites with the eye of the nostalgic lover of this picturesque and courageous part of our national heritage. A guide book for the adventurous, THE BONANZA TRAIL will be attractive alike to travelers, American history enthusiasts and collectors of Americana. Nor will its pages soon be forgotten by the general reader. “THE BONANZA TRAIL is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West for which so many students and amateurs of Western Americana have been waiting. Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas....A book that, to the informed intelligence, is almost impossible to put down.”—LUCIUS BEEBE, The Territorial Enterprise
History Of The Big Bonanza
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Author : William Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
History Of The Big Bonanza written by William Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Comstock Lode (Nev.) categories.
The Story Of The Mine As Illustrated By The Great Comstock Lode Of Nevada
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Author : Charles Howard Shinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09
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History Of The Big Bonanza An Authentic Account Of The Discovery History And Working Of The World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode Of Nevada
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Author : William Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
History Of The Big Bonanza An Authentic Account Of The Discovery History And Working Of The World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode Of Nevada written by William Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Comstock Lode (Nev.) categories.
The Big Bonanza
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Author : Dan De Quille
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
The Big Bonanza written by Dan De Quille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Comstock Lode (Nev.) categories.