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Author : Juanita Kennedy Browne
Publisher : Nevada County Historical
ISBN 13 : 9780915641000
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Nuggets of Nevada County History written by Juanita Kennedy Browne and published by Nevada County Historical. This book was released on 1983 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orval Bronson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915641123
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Nevada City written by Orval Bronson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Gold Rush town of Nevada City, California from 1850 to 2002. Includes information about Native Americans, Chinese, gold mining, railroads, newspapers, fires, entertainment, industry, government, churches, and fraternal organizations. Brief biographies of 40 pioneers.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520256941
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Driven Out written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.
Author : Mary Anne Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467139548
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Nevada County Wine written by Mary Anne Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada County's tumultuous wine history includes several booms and busts, starting in the 1850s when gold prospectors brought the first grapevines in their saddlebags. Economic downturns, prohibition and war all tried to kill the fledgling wine industry, but it hung on thanks to gentleman farmers and members of the mining industry who supplied a thirsty clientele. Today, although the mines have gone quiet, wineries are thriving in the hills of the Gold Country, and the pioneering spirit lives on in their distinctive vintages and growing techniques. Join author Mary Anne Davis as she explores the family vineyards of the California foothills.
Author : American Association for State and Local History
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759100022
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)
Download or read book Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada written by American Association for State and Local History and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-functional reference is a useful tool to find information about history-related organizations and programs and to contact those working in history across the country.
Author : Dana R. Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495108792
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book All Roads Lead to Battle Mountain written by Dana R. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darlis A. Miller
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133973
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Mary Hallock Foote written by Darlis A. Miller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted wife and mother. Acclaimed novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) published twelve novels, four short story collections, almost two dozen stories and essays, and innumerable illustrations. In Mary Hallock Foote, Darlis A. Willer examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman from the East as she adapted herself and her artistic vision to the West. Foote's images of the American West differed sharply from those offered by male artists and writers of the time. She depicted a more gentle West, a domestic West of families and settlements rather than a Wild West of soldiers, American Indians, and cowboys. Miller examines how Foote's career was molded by the East-West tensions she experienced throughout her adult life and by society's expectations of womanhood and motherhood. This biography recounts Foote’s Quaker upbringing; her education at the School of Design for Women at Cooper Union, New York; her marriage to Arthur De Wint Foote, including his alcohol problems; her life in Boise, Idaho, and later Grass Valley, California; her grief over the early death of daughter Agnes Foote; and the previously unexplored last two decades of her life. Miller has made extensive use of every major archive of letters and documents by and about Foote. She sheds light on Foote's numerous stories, essays, and novels. And examines all pertinent sources on Foote's life and works. Anyone interested in the American West, women's history, or life histories in general will find Miller's biography of Mary Hallock Foote fascinating,
Author : Ed Reid
Publisher : Ishi Press
ISBN 13 : 9784871873260
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The Green Felt Jungle written by Ed Reid and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expose of crime in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Author : Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317960
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition written by Elizabeth Petty Bentley and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Author : California Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book California Historical Society Quarterly written by California Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Winans
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1637474105
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Extraordinary Life of Edwin B. Winans written by Valerie Winans and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a mystery around the walking stick hidden away in the front hall closet. It was rarely even mentioned. It was revealing to pull it down from the top shelf and slide it out of the sleeve that protected it and into the light of day. The walking stick made of California redwood and topped with a nugget of quartz veined with gold is beautiful and impressive, stopping its observer in his tracks and making him wonder where it came from and who owned such an ornament. Who was the man who had the hubris to stroll down the street swinging such a glorious walking stick? The man, Edwin Winans, is as impressive as his stick. His story is revealed here in stages of his growth, starting as a young man in his quest for gold. He suffered much before he was successful; there's a love story to recount, adventures, and political intrigues. This story of his life presents an insight into the unusual man who left Michigan a better place because he lived, worked, served, and left a legacy.
Author : John R. Wunder
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359396
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain Turned to Dust written by John R. Wunder and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West. The first two essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American West.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dom Lindars
Publisher : Nevada City History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Ditches of Nevada City written by Dom Lindars and published by Nevada City History. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of Nevada City, California, through the eyes of the men that built it. For its first 100 years, everything in Nevada City revolved around gold. But this is not another book about finding gold. To get gold, you needed water — to pan for it, to wash it in a sluice, to blast away a hillside with an immense water cannon, or to turn the water wheel of a quartz-ore stamp mill. This book instead asks: How did they get the water? It reveals the engineering marvels that brought water to Nevada City’s dry hills from tens of miles away. But what if all the water in every ravine, creek and valley around Nevada City was controlled by just three men? Well, for three decades, every miner, farmer or business could only buy water from the powerful South Yuba Canal Company. What would happen if you got into an argument with them? Or couldn’t afford to pay their water bill? Or even dared to compete with them? The book traces the ingenuity and hard work of the town’s miners and ditch builders, highlighting in detail the history and origins of various local neighborhoods, including Nevada City itself, Hirschman's Pond, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deer Creek, Scotts Flat, Manzanita Diggings, Gold Flat and various mining camps along Washington Ridge. This vivid portrayal follows the area’s evolution from the chaos of thousands of miners scratching out a living in clusters of muddy tents to a genteel town with hotels, stores, banks, theaters and libraries. What began as a search to uncover a sprawling network of old ditches, turned into a collection of never-before-told stories of the gold miners, the ruthless and greedy ditch company, and the rivals that it crushed. The domineering ditch company later enabled the next generation of monopoly to provide electrical power. The story of PG&E also started in Nevada City. This, in turn, led to the now more forward-looking stewardship of the Nevada Irrigation District. The unique format of this book blends beautiful archival images with more than 35 in-depth biographies of key figures in Nevada City. This 884 page hardcover book includes over 600 photos and illustrations, including 200 historic photographs and 75 hand-crafted maps based on modern lidar technology that reveal the locations of the old mining ditches, flumes, mines and tunnels.
Author : Maria E. Brower
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530628
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Nevada City written by Maria E. Brower and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrant and captivating Nevada City began as a gold-mining camp called Deer Creek Dry Diggins. The large gravel deposits alongside this creek reportedly delivered a pound of pay dirt a day by the fall of 1849, when A. B. Caldwell's general store opened to supply this haphazard collection of tents. By March 1850, somewhere between 6,000 and 16,000 boisterous souls called it home, and the new town was christened "Nevada," meaning "snow covered" in Spanish. After 1861, townsfolk took to adding "City" to the name, to avoid confusion with the new state whose Comstock silver strike drained off many Nevada City residents. Seven fires burned early Nevada City to the ground, sparking a fashion for brick architecture that is evident in many of the 93 downtown structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209428
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Seven States of California written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05-12 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philip Fradkin's work is full of foresight, good sense, and an understanding of the ties between social and environmental dilemmas. Taking Fradkin's writing seriously is an important step in figuring out the American West today."—Patricia Nelson Limerick
