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Book Synopsis The Bonanza King by : Gregory Crouch
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.
Download or read book Last Bonanza Kings written by Ferol Egan and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the wealth from the great mining bonanzas of the nineteenth century American West flowed into San Francisco and made possible the growth of the city and some fabulous personal fortunes. Among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Bonanza Kings were William Bowers Bourn I and his son and successor, William Bowers Bourn II. Their wealth came from rich mines in Nevada’s Comstock Lode and Treasure Hill and California’s Sierra foothills, as well as astute business ventures in the booming port city of San Francisco. Last Bonanza Kings tells their story with all the colorful detail and sweeping sense of epic drama that the characters and their times demand, setting them into the turbulent context of an age of rampant financial and civic growth, major technological advances in mining, lavish philanthropy, and opulent personal lifestyles.
Book Synopsis The Bonanza Mines and the Bonanza Kings of California by : Squire Pierce Dewey
Download or read book The Bonanza Mines and the Bonanza Kings of California written by Squire Pierce Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bonanza Kings by : Richard H. Peterson
Download or read book The Bonanza Kings written by Richard H. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bonanza mines and the Bonanza kings of California by : Squire Pierce Dewey
Download or read book The Bonanza mines and the Bonanza kings of California written by Squire Pierce Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1879* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bonanza Kings by : Richard H. Peterson
Download or read book The Bonanza Kings written by Richard H. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Bonanza Kings by : Richard H. Peterson
Download or read book The Bonanza Kings written by Richard H. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Accidents that Made Bonanza Kings by : Frank J. Arkins
Download or read book Accidents that Made Bonanza Kings written by Frank J. Arkins and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bradys and the "Bonanza King;" Or, Fighting the Fakirs in Frisco by :
Download or read book The Bradys and the "Bonanza King;" Or, Fighting the Fakirs in Frisco written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bonanza: "King of the Mountain." by : Robert Sabaroff
Download or read book Bonanza: "King of the Mountain." written by Robert Sabaroff and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Miss Devereux of the Mariquita by : Richard Henry Savage
Download or read book Miss Devereux of the Mariquita written by Richard Henry Savage and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miss. Devereux of the Mariquita a Story of Bonanza Days in Nevada Marshall - prospecting for gold; Gould, Curry and other humble men were near at hand when the shout went up which called the whole world to Silverado. Though the State of Nevada is now a dethroned queen, and Col orado wears the silver crown, while Montana and Cali formia divide the honors of the golden sceptre, no land in the world ever made history as rapidly as Washoe, and Nevada, from 1858 down to those royal Bonanza days, when the Nevada Silver Barons stormed San Francisco, and building their Pine Street Fortress, made themselves the Bonanza Kings of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Forgotten Pioneers by : Thomas F. Prendergast
Download or read book Forgotten Pioneers written by Thomas F. Prendergast and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive look at the Irish in Northern California from 1835 to 1900. Filled with anecdotes and insider history - this book is a unique piece of California history. The title, Forgotten Pioneers, embodies only half a truth in its application to the subject --- those early settlers in the wilderness of California, men of Irish birth or ancestry who contributed lavishly toward laying the foundations of a new commonwealth on the Pacific. It is the purpose of this book to reinstate in the rank where they belong, some, at least, of these overlooked men "whose character and achievement entitle them to the highest place in the respect and esteem of the people."
Book Synopsis Gentleman Joe, the Bonanza King, Or, the Belle of Silver Gulch by : Joseph Edward Badger
Download or read book Gentleman Joe, the Bonanza King, Or, the Belle of Silver Gulch written by Joseph Edward Badger and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
