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The Bonanza King

Author : Gregory Crouch
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501108204
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Bonanza King written by Gregory Crouch and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

The Road Dance

Author : John MacKay
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804250384
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Road Dance written by John MacKay and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is releasing to celebrate the release of the award winning film adaptation, starring Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher and Mark Gatiss and directed by Richie Adams. Cinematic release set for May 2022 in UK and Irish cinemas. Winner of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award 2021. Kirsty MacLeod is a beautiful young woman, coveted by all the young men of her island village. She dreams of America, of following the setting sun west to a better life. She meets the man who dreams her dreams and promises to make them come true. But then the Great War breaks out and the men must leave for battle. In their honour, the islanders organise a grand Road Dance. That night she is raped. She is left with a secret that will bring shame upon her and her family and ultimately on the child she is carrying. On a night of storms and sorrow, she has to make her choice and it is no choice at all.

Dziga Vertov

Author : John MacKay
Publisher : Film and Media Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781618117342
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Dziga Vertov written by John MacKay and published by Film and Media Studies. This book was released on 2018 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film. This book addresses Vertov's formative years in prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, alongside his interests in music, poetry and technology.

Home

Author : John MacKay
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910022683
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Home written by John MacKay and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built for the new age, the house stood boldly upright on the edge of the ocean withstanding the harsh blasts of a cruel century, nurturing and protecting the family within, watchful of hearts swollen or broken, dreams delivered and dashed. It had absorbed the tears and echoed the laughter. A sweeping saga of one family through a momentous century. Different people, divergent lives and distinctive stories. Bound together by the place they called home. But one of them is missing, lost to the world. An unknown grandchild, born to a son who went to war and never came back. As the years pass, through wars and emigration, social transformation and generational change, the search continues. And the questions remain the same: who is he? Where is he? Will he ever come home?

John Mackay

Author : Michael J. Makley
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874177952
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book John Mackay written by Michael J. Makley and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1870s until his death in 1902, John Mackay was among the richest men in the world and was without a doubt the wealthiest man to emerge from Nevada’s fabulous Comstock Lode. Author Michael J. Makley explores how, from his beginnings as a poor Irish immigrant, John Mackay developed a strong work ethic that distinguished him for the rest of his life. He came west to seek his fortune in the California Gold Rush and then moved on to Virginia City, Nevada, where he dealt in mining stocks and operated silver mines. After making a fortune in mining, he transferred his energies to banking and communications. John Mackay offers new insight into the life and achievements of this remarkable man. It also places Mackay in the broader context of his time, an era of robber barons and rampant corruption, rapidly advancing technology, national and international capitalism, and flagrant displays of newfound wealth. Even in this context, he stood out, not only for his contributions to Nevada and mining history, but also for his reputation as an important business leader fighting the consolidation and venality of corporate power in the Gilded Age. His actions freed the Comstock from a financial monopoly, resulting in moderated rates for the milling, timber, shipping, transportation, and water that made mining possible and precipitated the discovery and development of the ore field known as the “Big Bonanza.” Makley’s book recounts the life and career of one of the most successful men of his age, a capitalist of immense wealth who generously helped those around him and worked diligently in the public interest. This engaging biography will appeal to readers interested in the Comstock Lode and mining in the West during the latter part of the nineteenth century as well as general western history enthusiasts.

The Other Spanish Christ

Author : John A. Mackay
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 157910648X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Other Spanish Christ written by John A. Mackay and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metzger, Isobel Mackay (author's daughter)

The Book of Mackay

Author : Angus MacKay
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 587912293X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Mackay written by Angus MacKay and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1906 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms

Author : David J. C. MacKay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521642989
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms written by David J. C. MacKay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information theory and inference, taught together in this exciting textbook, lie at the heart of many important areas of modern technology - communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics and cryptography. The book introduces theory in tandem with applications. Information theory is taught alongside practical communication systems such as arithmetic coding for data compression and sparse-graph codes for error-correction. Inference techniques, including message-passing algorithms, Monte Carlo methods and variational approximations, are developed alongside applications to clustering, convolutional codes, independent component analysis, and neural networks. Uniquely, the book covers state-of-the-art error-correcting codes, including low-density-parity-check codes, turbo codes, and digital fountain codes - the twenty-first-century standards for satellite communications, disk drives, and data broadcast. Richly illustrated, filled with worked examples and over 400 exercises, some with detailed solutions, the book is ideal for self-learning, and for undergraduate or graduate courses. It also provides an unparalleled entry point for professionals in areas as diverse as computational biology, financial engineering and machine learning.

Max Stirner

Author : John Henry Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Max Stirner written by John Henry Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hustler

Author : John Henry Mackay
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465321497
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Hustler written by John Henry Mackay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

History of the house and clan of Mackay

Author : Robert Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book History of the house and clan of Mackay written by Robert Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creation Unfolding

Author : Ken P Coulson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734584202
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Creation Unfolding written by Ken P Coulson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian non-fiction

History of the House and Clan of Mackay

Author : Rob Donn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History of the House and Clan of Mackay written by Rob Donn and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Celtic Monthly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Celtic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anarchists

Author : John Henry MacKay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book The Anarchists written by John Henry MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's Poet-Anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote this thinly-disguised fictional account of his sojourn to London in 1887. A journey of transformation from revolutionary self-martyrdom to radical self-ownership, the book follows Carrard Auban (a French revolutionary firebrand turned anarcho-individualist) through late-19th century Paris, Chicago, and London.

Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love

Author : John Henry MacKay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781419610851
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love written by John Henry MacKay and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete translation of the volume of six “books” that John Henry Mackay published pseudonymously as Die Bücher der namenlosen Liebe von Sagitta in 1913. The project was begun in 1905 and soon had its own problems, as described by Mackay in his introduction, “The History of a Fight for the Nameless Love.” This—and the collection all together—is an important historical document of the beginning of the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany a century ago and of the role that boy-lovers played in it. At the same time it gives an insight into the heart and mind of an accomplished writer who knew personally the joys and pains of “the nameless love”—which Oscar Wilde called “the Love that dare not speak its name.”

History of the Big Bonanza

Author : William Wright
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342816903
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book History of the Big Bonanza written by William Wright and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.