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Exterminate Them

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870139614
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Exterminate Them written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1999-01-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous gold rush. "It is a mercy to the Red Devils," wrote an editor of the Chico Courier, "to exterminate them." Newspaper accounts of the era depict both the barbarity and the nobility in human nature, but while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans, they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of white miners and settlers. They became "strangers in a stolen land."

A Gold Rush of Murder

Author : Terry Weed
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book A Gold Rush of Murder written by Terry Weed and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The townspeople of Willster are shocked when their mayor is murdered in his bed. When the suspected killer is arrested, he tries to hire his brilliant Gen Z niece, Denise, as his defense investigator. But Denise has her own problems. Her cheating ex-boyfriend terminated her internship at the law firm, causing her to drop out of law school. Despondent, Denise drives to Willster to see her ailing grandmother, who is showing signs of dementia. Grandma convinces Denise that using her clever law school skills to investigate her uncle's murder case will lift Denise out of her depression and restore her bold self-determination. A second story unfolds during the 1849 California Gold Rush. Padre Felix, a Catholic Priest, chances upon two murdered men and their secret that puts his life in jeopardy. To keep from being killed and to prevent the destruction of the Catholic Mission, the padre devises a scheme to keep the secret hidden until law and order comes to California. Back in the present day, suspects are plentiful, but Denise's investigation takes a twist when someone illegally digs up the grave of Padre Felix. Denise deciphers a cryptic message carved into the gravestone that leads her on a trail of clues planted by the padre. After someone tries to kill her, it validates her suspicion that the padre's secret is the motive for the mayor's murder.

Skull in the Ashes

Author : Peter Kaufman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382137
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Skull in the Ashes written by Peter Kaufman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few of his personal items scattered under the body. At first, it seemed to be a tragic accident mitigated just a bit by Novak’s foresight in buying generous life insurance policies to provide for his family. But soon an investigation by the ambitious new county attorney, M. J. Tobin, turned up evidence suggesting that the dead man might actually be Edward Murray, a hard-drinking local laborer. Relying upon newly developed forensic techniques, Tobin gradually built a case implicating Novak in Murray’s murder. But all he had was circumstantial evidence, and up to that time few murder convictions had been won on that basis in the United States. Others besides Tobin were interested in the case, including several companies that had sold Novak life insurance policies. One agency hired detectives to track down every clue regarding the suspect’s whereabouts. Newspapers across the country ran sensational headlines with melodramatic coverage of the manhunt. Veteran detective Red Perrin’s determined trek over icy mountain paths and dangerous river rapids to the raw Yukon Territory town of Dawson City, which was booming with prospectors as the Klondike gold rush began, made for especially good copy. Skull in the Ashes traces the actions of Novak, Tobin, and Perrin, showing how the Walford fire played a pivotal role in each man’s life. Along the way, author Peter Kaufman gives readers a fascinating glimpse into forensics, detective work, trial strategies, and prison life at the close of the nineteenth century. As much as it is a chilling tale of a cold-blooded murder and its aftermath, this is also the story of three ambitious young men and their struggle to succeed in a rapidly modernizing world.

Gold is the Key

Author : Thomas L. Aud
Publisher : McCann Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780967125138
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Gold is the Key written by Thomas L. Aud and published by McCann Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author is the former library director of the Jackson Madison County Public Library.

Mining for Murder

Author : Mary Angela
Publisher : Lyrical Underground
ISBN 13 : 1516110749
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Mining for Murder written by Mary Angela and published by Lyrical Underground. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zo Jones is enjoying the sunny season at her Happy Camper gift shop in Spirit Canyon, South Dakota—when a murder reminds her all that glitters isn’t gold . . . The South Dakota Gold Rush might be long over, but Zo Jones feels like she’s hit the mother lode when she and her friends browse an estate sale, where a rare old book about the history of Spirit Canyon is causing quite a commotion. In addition to local stories and secrets, the book may even contain the location of a famous stash of gold—a treasure worth killing for. Zo’s friend Maynard Cline wins the bid on the book, to the chagrin of many interested parties, including the historical society and college history department. But when Zo and Hattie head to Maynard’s mansion to borrow the book for a library event, the only thing they find is Maynard—at the bottom of the mountain. The valuable book is gone. Zo knows this must be murder because there’s no way a germophobe like Maynard would have voluntarily dived into a pile of dirt. Now she’ll have to dig into a new case, and go prospecting for a perpetrator . . .

Skull in the Ashes

Author : Peter Kaufman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381882
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Gold! Gold from the American River!

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Flash Point
ISBN 13 : 1429990961
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Gold! Gold from the American River! written by Don Brown and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When James Marshall found a small, soft shiny stone in a California stream, he knew it could only be one thing: Gold! His cry of discovery would be heard around the world. In the third installment of Don Brown's Actual Times series, Gold! Gold from the American River! is the story of the California gold rush--the uncharted journey across hostile land, the laborious process of panning for gold, the success of savvy entrepreneurs, and the fortunes of the marginalized, from slaves and American Indians to women and foreigners.

Roaring Camp

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320992
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.

The Age of Gold

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481220
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Gold written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated America’s imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H.W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of adventurers John and Jessie Fremont, entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the wry observer Samuel Clemens—side by side with prospectors, soldiers, and scoundrels. He imparts a visceral sense of the distances they traveled, the suffering they endured, and the fortunes they made and lost. Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life, The Age of Gold is history in the grand traditions of Stephen Ambrose and David McCullough.

The Mystery of the Cache Creek Murders

Author : Roberta Sheldon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888125825
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Cache Creek Murders written by Roberta Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of the murders of four long-time gold miners in Alaska's Susitna Valley in 1939. Prodigious research reveals a protracted FBI investigation and a prime suspect who was never brought to trial.

Murdered Midas

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443449369
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Murdered Midas written by Charlotte Gray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

Gold Rush

Author : Miri Yū
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566492836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush written by Miri Yū and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work composed of eerily vivid scenes that possess an animation-like hyper-reality, Gold Rush is a graphic, violent, controversial novel of the corruption of modern Japan and its youth."--BOOK JACKET.

The California Gold Rush, Grades 4 - 7

Author : Cindy Barden
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
ISBN 13 : 1580378528
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush, Grades 4 - 7 written by Cindy Barden and published by Mark Twain Media. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring history to life for students in grades 4–7 with The California Gold Rush! This 64-page book provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies topics. Activities include word searches, fact-or-opinion questions, and creative writing. The book includes answer keys, time lines, and suggested reading lists.

Gold!

Author : Ian Neligh
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513260669
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Gold! written by Ian Neligh and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uncovers a centuries-long story of obsession that often included murder, gun fights, deadly accidents, overnight fortunes and even cannibalism. . . Neligh is a practiced writer whose style mixes history and modern realities seamlessly." -Colorado Country Life Gold! brings together the story of this metal’s glittering legacy in the Centennial State and the madness, murder, and mayhem that came along with it. The book examines the rich history of the miners and treasure hunters who came to face danger and hardships in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains. This story is unique in that it takes a look at the phenomenon of gold, the treasure hunters, both modern and historic, and brings them to life in a detailed and sharp narrative. Author Ian Neligh spent a year meeting with experts and enthusiasts, hearing their stories and trying to understand why it is they continue to do what they do—often in the face of extreme hardship. Modern-day gold miners profiled include Al Mosch, Bill Chapman, Ken Reid, and Chad Watkins. Gold! is the story of an unusual subculture on the rise in the mountains of Colorado fueled by a delicate balance of hope, greed, and loss. It tells the story of men mostly forgotten by the world as they go in endless pursuit of an impossible fortune. It follows miners working their small, dangerous gold claims in mines over a hundred years old, to modern-day prospectors trying to strike it rich and counterbalance the weight of a struggling economy. The book also examines if those who spend their lives in search of riches—ever actually strike it rich. This book will appeal to both history buffs as well as fans of modern-day reality shows like Gold Rush.

The Stranger in Goldrush

Author : Sheila Bush
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602474370
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger in Goldrush written by Sheila Bush and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She'd escaped the lights of Broadway and a bad marriage in New York, to go into business in Goldrush, with her cousin, Jenni. Life was peaceful and simple; that is, until the cast and crew of The Stranger came to town. Soon, Tana is entangled with past scandals, tabloid gossip, and an unwanted attraction to the show's irresistibly handsome leading man, Travis Allen. If that wasn't enough to upend her world, she suddenly finds herself the prime suspect of a bizarre crime committed in their virtually crime free town. Surrounded by dozens of possible suspects and motives, pursued by Travis's attentions, the story-hungry tabloids, a sharp former homicide detective, and her own past, Tana's Rocky Mountain world is shaken to its core. Somehow, for the sake of her home and her very life, she has to find out who really is "The Stranger in Goldrush."

Gold Rush Ghosts of Placerville, Coloma & Georgetown

Author : Linda J. Bottjer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584994X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Ghosts of Placerville, Coloma & Georgetown written by Linda J. Bottjer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by the dream to strike it rich, prospectors flocked to California during the gold rush. Yet the harsh lifestyle and backbreaking work led many to early graves. Join author Linda Bottjer on a tour through Gold Country's most chilling--and true--haunted tales. Tales such as the hangman of Placerville, whose distinctive wheeze is a sign of his continued presence. Or the Georgetown miner whose unrequited love for a much younger lady of the night finds him still pining for her in death as he did in life. And in Coloma, the ghost of James Marshall is said to dwell on the lonely hilltop where his cabin and monument now stand. These stories, and many others, capture the ghostly spirit of Gold Country.

The Clara Nevada

Author : Steven C. Levi
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781609492885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Clara Nevada written by Steven C. Levi and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February 5, 1898. Witnesses report a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska's Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm-- taking passengers and priceless cargo with her. Was the explosion an accident or a robbery gone wrong? Did Captain C.H. Lewis make off with $165,000 ($13.6 million in today's currency) in raw gold? Or was the sinking a case of a sea-weary steamer meeting an untimely end? Alaska historian Steven C. Levi combs the archives to piece together the true account of the Clara Nevada's final voyage, attempting to solve the riddle of the lost steamer that resurfaced ten years after that tragic night and became known as Alaska's ghost ship.