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Book Synopsis Boom Town Directory and Ghost Town Guide to Nevada's Aurora by : Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Download or read book Boom Town Directory and Ghost Town Guide to Nevada's Aurora written by Clifford Alpheus Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered across the American West are hundreds of abandoned ghost towns each with their own particular story to tell. The ghost town of Aurora, Nevada, is no exception. Looking out over the deserted landscape today, it's hard to imagine that during the Civil War this remote corner of western Nevada was home to over five thousand people living in a thousand buildings made of wood and locally manufactured brick. This new book is about a promising young city at the peak of her prosperity and includes descriptions and firsthand accounts of Aurora's buildings, businesses, organizations, schools, government, mines, newspapers, and residents. The town's more interesting and important buildings and streets have been noted on a map and historic photograph, and are indexed to detailed descriptions in the book's directory. An annotated list of the thousands of men and women who once called Aurora home during the early 1860s has also been included. Even though there are no buildings left to see today, Aurora's historic importance was recognized in 1974 when the entire town site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Book Synopsis Nevada Historical Society Quarterly by : Nevada Historical Society
Download or read book Nevada Historical Society Quarterly written by Nevada Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colorado Ghost Town and Mining Camp Guide by : Robert B. Murray
Download or read book Colorado Ghost Town and Mining Camp Guide written by Robert B. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog of Printed Books by : Bancroft Library
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nevada Towns and Tales by : Stanley W. Paher
Download or read book Nevada Towns and Tales written by Stanley W. Paher and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Real-Life X-Files written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2001-10-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a scientific approach to paranormal mysteries, taking readers on a series of case studies from spontaneous human combustion and hauntings to aliens and stigmata, employing forensic and investigative techniques to their analysis.
Book Synopsis A Year in Bodie by : Margaret R. Chavez
Download or read book A Year in Bodie written by Margaret R. Chavez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year in Bodie follows the lives of Carl and Margaret Chavez from October 1966 to October 1967 in the harsh, isolated conditions of Bodie State Historic Park where Carl began his career as a park ranger for the California Department of Parks and Recreation. His wife Margaret, pregnant at the time, endured the challenging conditions and environment of Bodie, yet somehow managed to thrive and provide a loving home. Her account of those times from a womans perspective give us a glimpse of a time that is no longer with us.
Book Synopsis A Patriot's History of the United States by : Larry Schweikart
Download or read book A Patriot's History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Book Synopsis Haunting Experiences by : Diane Goldstein
Download or read book Haunting Experiences written by Diane Goldstein and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Book Synopsis An 1864 Directory and Guide to Nevada's Aurora by : Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Download or read book An 1864 Directory and Guide to Nevada's Aurora written by Clifford Alpheus Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking out over the deserted landscape today it is hard to imagine that during the Civil War this remote corner of western Nevada was home to over five thousand people living in a thousand buildings made mostly of brick. This book describes a promising young city at the peak of prosperity and includes 37 photographs, 9 maps, numerous historic newspaper advertisements, and detailed descriptions of Aurora's buildings, businesses, organizations, schools, government, mines, and newspapers. It also includes a list of residents from 1861-1864, a list of newspaper articles about Aurora from 1860 to 1864, and an account of the July 4, 1864, Grand Celebration.
Book Synopsis Life and Letters of a Forty-niner's Daughter by : Ella Sterling Mighels
Download or read book Life and Letters of a Forty-niner's Daughter written by Ella Sterling Mighels and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps by : Stanley W. Paher
Download or read book Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps written by Stanley W. Paher and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised editions with 62 new color topo maps, numerous photos and descriptions of ghost towns, historic places, gold sites, recreation areas, and more throughout Nevada.
Book Synopsis The Red Umbrella by : Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Download or read book The Red Umbrella written by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl? The Red Umbrella is a touching story of country, culture, family, and the true meaning of home. “Captures the fervor, uncertainty and fear of the times. . . . Compelling.” –The Washington Post “Gonzalez deals effectively with separation, culture shock, homesickness, uncertainty and identity as she captures what is also a grand adventure.” –San Francisco Chronicle
Book Synopsis The Sundance Kid by : Donna B. Ernst
Download or read book The Sundance Kid written by Donna B. Ernst and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid—whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his life. She now brings to print the most thorough account ever of one of the West’s most infamous outlaws, tracing his life from his childhood in Pennsylvania to his involvement with the Wild Bunch and, in 1908, to his reputed death by gunshot in Bolivia. Combining genealogical research, access to family records, and explorations in historical archives, Ernst details the Sundance Kid’s movements to paint a complete picture of the man. She recounts his homesteading days in Colorado, offers new information on his years as a cowboy in Wyoming and Canada, and cites newly uncovered records that substantiate both his outlaw activities and his attempts at self-reform. While taking readers on the wild chase that became Longabaugh’s life, outracing posses and Pinkertons, Ernst corrects inaccuracies in the historical record. She demonstrates that he could not have participated in the Belle Fourche bank heist or the Tipton train robbery and refutes speculations that Butch and Sundance managed to escape their fate in Bolivia. The Sundance Kid is enlivened by more than three dozen photographs, including family photos never before seen.
Book Synopsis Gates of Fire by : Steven Pressfield
Download or read book Gates of Fire written by Steven Pressfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .
Book Synopsis Adventures in the Apache Country by : John Ross Browne
Download or read book Adventures in the Apache Country written by John Ross Browne and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
