Gold And Silver In The West
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Author |
: Tom H. Watkins |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0517164302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780517164303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gold And Silver In The West by : Tom H. Watkins
Author |
: Tom H. Watkins |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1320862966 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gold and Silver in the West by : Tom H. Watkins
Author |
: Sandy Nestor |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0786475153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780786475155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Silver and Gold Mining Camps of the Old West by : Sandy Nestor
The lure of gold in the American West beckoned to thousands of hungry settlers eager to stake a claim, reap the wealth, and escape often difficult conditions at home, whether Eastern cities, Europe or China. Prospectors found that veins of gold and silver were elusive and could dry up suddenly. Forced to move often in search of the next big lode, they left behind them hundreds of mining camps and settlements, many of which still exist across the Western landscape. This reference work catalogs silver and gold mining camps by state in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Each entry includes location, names of known miners, year of discovery, and ore value. Unique details of each camp are given, including historical events, buildings and businesses present. Interesting anecdotes abound about the resident miners. The work is indexed by topic and mine, and appendices offer a glossary and the Miners’ Ten Commandments (Placerville [California] Herald, 1853).
Author |
: Duane A. Smith |
Publisher |
: University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2011-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781457109881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1457109883 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Trail of Gold and Silver by : Duane A. Smith
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever, affecting settlement, territorial status, statehood, publicity, development, investment, economy, jobs both in and outside the industry, transportation, tourism, advances in mining and smelting technology, and urbanization. Moreover, the first generation of Colorado mining brought a fascinating collection of people and a new era to the region. Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush. Smith's narrative will appeal to anybody with an interest in the state's fascinating mining history over the past 150 years.
Author |
: Dane Coolidge |
Publisher |
: Litres |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2022-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9785040481248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 5040481241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Silver and Gold: A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by : Dane Coolidge
Author |
: Rossiter Worthington Raymond |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1874 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:83294356 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gold and Silver Mines of the West by : Rossiter Worthington Raymond
Author |
: Dane Coolidge |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433074785365 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Silver and Gold by : Dane Coolidge
Author |
: William L. Silber |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2021-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691208695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691208697 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story of Silver by : William L. Silber
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
Author |
: Holly L. Skinner |
Publisher |
: Big Earth Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1555663125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781555663124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eye of the Blackbird by : Holly L. Skinner
From California to the Klondike, prospector Holly Skinner follows a trail of gold across the nineteenth -century American West. Living in a ghost town on Wyoming's South Pass, she steps back into a world where gold ruled the passions of those who pursued it and changed the shape of the nation that found it. In a style reminiscent of John McPhee, Skinner weaves the story of her own solitudinous search for the precious metal into her accounts of the gold rushes that so dramatically accelerated the westward movement.
Author |
: J. W. Stranahan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:77354766 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gold and Silver Mining and Railroad Building in the West, from 1865 to 1893 by : J. W. Stranahan