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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 : Terry Weed
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 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 Terry Weed. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The townspeople of Willster are shocked when their mayor is murdered. When the suspected killer is arrested, he tries to hire his Gen Z niece, Denise, as his defense investigator. But Denise has her own problems. Her cheating ex-boyfriend terminated her law internship, causing her to drop out of law school. Despondent, Denise drives to Willster to see her eccentric grandmother. Grandma convinces Denise to use her clever law school skills to investigate her uncle's murder case. A second story unfolds during the 1849 Gold Rush. Padre Felix, a young 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 Padre Felix’s grave. 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.

Mining for Murder

Author : Mary Angela
Publisher : Lyrical Press
ISBN 13 : 1516110714
Total Pages : 304 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 Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 304 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 . . .

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.

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277577
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.

Murder State

Author : Brendan C. Lindsay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080324021X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Murder State written by Brendan C. Lindsay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy—in this case mob rule—through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants’ experiences on the overland trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers’ quest for land. The allegedly “violent nature” of Native people was often merely their reaction to the atrocities committed against them as they were driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from their traditional resources. In this narrative history employing numerous primary sources and the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on genocide, Brendan C. Lindsay examines the darker side of California history, one that is rarely studied in detail, and the motives of both Native Americans and Euro-Americans at the time. Murder State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide.

Black Fire

Author : Robert Graysmith
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720578
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Black Fire written by Robert Graysmith and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer, told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco. When San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. He learned that Sawyer was a volunteer firefighter, local hero, and a former “Torch Boy,” racing ahead of hand-drawn fire engines at night carrying torches to light the way. When a mysterious serial arsonist known as “The Lightkeeper” was in the process of burning San Francisco to the ground, Sawyer played a key role in stopping him, helping to contain what is now considered the most disastrous and costly series of fires ever experienced by an American metropolis. By chronicling how Sawyer took it upon himself to investigate, expose, and stop the arsonist, Black Fire details Sawyer’s remarkable life and illustrates why Twain would later feel compelled to name his iconic character after him when writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A vivid portrayal of the gritty, corrupt, and violent world of the Gold Rush-era West, Black Fire is the most vibrant and thorough account of Sawyer’s relationship with Mark Twain, and of the devastating fires that baptized San Francisco.

This Bloody Deed

Author : Ladd Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book This Bloody Deed written by Ladd Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladd Hamilton's vivid storytelling brings to life the infamous murder of popular Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder in the Bitterroot Mountains during the 1860s Idaho-Montana gold rush.

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.

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 . . .

Gold Rush

Author :
Publisher : SDSHS Press
ISBN 13 : 0984504109
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush written by and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jack London's Short Stories: 184 Tales of the Gold Rush, Frozen North, South Seas & Wildlife Adventures (Illustrated)

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Jack London's Short Stories: 184 Tales of the Gold Rush, Frozen North, South Seas & Wildlife Adventures (Illustrated) written by Jack London and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London's collection of short stories, titled 'Jack London's Short Stories: 184 Tales of the Gold Rush, Frozen North, South Seas & Wildlife Adventures (Illustrated)', provides readers with a diverse range of gripping narratives set in various landscapes. London's literary style is characterized by vivid descriptions and a focus on raw human emotion amidst the harsh realities of survival. Each story immerses the reader in the rugged environments of the Gold Rush era, the frozen landscapes of the North, the exotic South Seas, and thrilling wildlife adventures. London's ability to capture the essence of each setting makes these tales captivating and thought-provoking. As a major figure in American literature, London's works often explore themes of nature, survival, and the human spirit, making his short stories both entertaining and profound. His own experiences as an adventurer and a traveler greatly influenced his writing, allowing him to create authentic and engaging stories that resonate with readers. I highly recommend 'Jack London's Short Stories' to anyone who enjoys adventure, nature, and compelling storytelling, as each tale offers not only entertainment but also valuable insights into the human experience.

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039329207X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-12-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.

The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786256738
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush written by Pierre Berton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Absolutely first-rate.”—The New Yorker This thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Incredible events occurred in North America after a decrepit steamboat docked at Seattle in 1897 containing two tons of pure gold. So frenzied was the clash for gold and so scant was information about conditions in the Klondike that the rush for riches became a kind of fabulous madness. The entire tale—of which Pierre Berton’s account is the definitive telling—has an epic ring (legends were lived and fortunes were won) as much because of its splendid folly as because of its color and motion. “The definitive account of an affair as wildly improbable as any in North American history.”—Saturday Review “A lively saga of the great gold rush. It is the most complete and most authentic on the subject in English.”—The New York Times Book Review

Jolly Fellows

Author : Richard Stott
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897955
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Jolly Fellows written by Richard Stott and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control. Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.

Murder in a Few Words

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641714
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Murder in a Few Words written by Charlotte Beyer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.