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The Lost Gold of San Francisco

Author : Michael Castleman
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 9780867196740
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Gold of San Francisco written by Michael Castleman and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2007 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intricately-plotted mystery thriller is charged by priceless missing Mint gold framed between the two big earthquakes of 1906 and 1989. The day before the 1906 earthquake, the US Army failed to pick up $130,000 in mis-struck $20 gold pieces at the San Francisco Mint. These coins' S mint marks had been accidentally double-struck SS and they were to be melted down in Denver. After the Big One, the coins dissapear; only two are ever found. These are the most storied coins in US history, with the others known as the Lost Gold of San Francisco. In 1989 Chester Worthington Gilchrist III, billionaire publisher of the San Francisco Foghorn newspaper donates his priceless coin collection -- with one of the SS pieces -- to the California Museum. Then the founder of the Museum, a contoversial figure, turns up murdered. Brash reporter Ed Rosenberg chases the story . More bodies drop, and Ed suspects a connection to the Lost Gold.

The Secret

Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret written by Byron Preiss and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.

Mud, Blood, and Gold

Author : Rand Richards
Publisher : Heritage House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781879367067
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Mud, Blood, and Gold written by Rand Richards and published by Heritage House Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco in 1849 was a time and place like no other in American history. As word of the discovery of gold in California spread, people from all over the world descended on San Francisco--ground zero for the avalanche of humanity and goods pouring into the fabled El Dorado. There have been many books on the Gold Rush, but Mud, Blood, and Gold is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a 'you are there' immediacy author Rand Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, Richards chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.

Buried Treasures of California

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874834062
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of California written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects legends of buried treasure in California, including the lost San Miguel treasure, the canyon of lost gold, and the lost Dutch Oven mine.

Lost Department Stores of San Francisco

Author : Anne Evers Hitz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669198
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Lost Department Stores of San Francisco written by Anne Evers Hitz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.

Gold Fever

Author :
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Fever written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof. Malcolm Parry searches for gold in the hills of Wales.

San Francisco's Lost Landmarks

Author : James R. Smith
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995446
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco's Lost Landmarks written by James R. Smith and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than one hundred and fifty years. It not only tells of the lost landmarks, but also dishes up the flavour of what it was like to experience these past treasures.

The Lost Treasure of Fernando Montoya

Author : Rick Acker
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780825496639
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Treasure of Fernando Montoya written by Rick Acker and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sibling sleuths Arthur and Kirstin Davis explore treacherous gold fields, shark-infested waters, and a buried ship to reclaim the lost treasure of Fernando Montoya. Guaranteed fiction!

Buried Treasures of the South

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874832860
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of the South written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume in W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasure series contains 38 tales gathered from the breadth of the American South. Eight states are included: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

Author : Gary Kinder
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 155584796X
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Book Synopsis Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by : Gary Kinder

Download or read book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea written by Gary Kinder and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek

Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874832723
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 32 tales from the area containing the backbone of America include The Gold Behind the Waterfall (Arizona), The Treasure of Deadman Cave (Colorado), Lava Cave Cache (Idaho), Henry Plummer's Lost Gold (Montana), The Curse of the Lost Sheepherder's Mine (Nevada), Lost Train Robbery Loot in Cibola County (New Mexico), Eighty Ingots in Spanish Gold (Utah), and Lost Ledge of Gold (Wyoming). As Jameson points out in his introduction, the Rocky Mountains still have many remote areas, ....

Gold Rush Port

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255801
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Port written by James P. Delgado and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings from this period, James P. Delgado re-creates San Francisco's unique maritime landscape, shedding new light on the city's remarkable rise from a small village to a boomtown of thousands in the three short years from 1848 to 1851. Gleaning history from artifacts—preserves and liquors in bottles, leather boots and jackets, hulls of ships, even crocks of butter lying alongside discarded guns—Gold Rush Port paints a fascinating picture of how ships and global connections created the port and the city of San Francisco. Setting the city's history into the wider web of international relationships, Delgado reshapes our understanding of developments in the Pacific that led to a world system of trading.

Bound for Gold

Author : William Martin
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 076538423X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Bound for Gold written by William Martin and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare-book dealer Peter Fallon returns in a thrilling historical novel about the California Gold Rush, by New York Times bestselling author William Martin Bound for Gold continues New York Times bestselling author William Martin’s epic of American history with the further adventures of Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington. They are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a “lost river of gold,” Spencer confronts vengeance, greed, and racism in himself and others, and builds one of California’s first mercantile empires. In the present, Peter Fallon’s son asks his father for help appraising the rare books in the Spencer estate and reconstructing Spencer’s seven-part journal, which has been stolen from the California Historical Society. Peter and Evangeline head for modern San Francisco and quickly discover that there’s something much bigger and more dangerous going on, and Peter’s son is in the middle of it. Turns out, that lost river of gold may be more than a myth. Past and present intertwine as two stories of the eternal struggle for power and wealth become one. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Slumach's Gold

Author : Rick Antonson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926613252
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Slumach's Gold written by Rick Antonson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man’s hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach—the hanged criminal—was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets “the size of walnuts.” The stories claimed that Slumach had placed a curse on a hidden motherlode to protect it from interlopers and trespassers just before he plunged to his death “at the wrong end of a five-strand rope.” Although many have attempted to find Slumach’s gold over the past 100 years, following tantalizing clues that are part of the legend itself, none have succeeded—or have they? Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact—along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.

The Californian Crusoe, Or, The Lost Treasure Found

Author : Robert Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Californian Crusoe, Or, The Lost Treasure Found written by Robert Richards and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Californian Crusoe; Or, The Lost Treasure Found: a Tale of Mormonism

Author : Californian Crusoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Californian Crusoe; Or, The Lost Treasure Found: a Tale of Mormonism written by Californian Crusoe and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Backcountry Adventures Southern California

Author : Peter Massey
Publisher : Adler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930193262
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Backcountry Adventures Southern California written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,970 miles of routes that travel through the beautiful mountain regions of Big Sur, across the arid Mojave Desert, and straight into the heart of the aptly named Death Valley. Trail history comes alive through the accounts of Spanish Missionaries; eager prospectors looking to cash in during California's gold rush; and legends of lost mines. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 153 trails, 640 pages, and 645 photos.