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Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Sketch Book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino: Comprising Sketches of Their Topography, Productions, History, Scenery, and Peculiar Attractions The great mineral excitement - Phoenix Mining Company. Redington Mining Company. - Pope Valley Mining Com pany. - Washington Mining Company. - Hamilton Min ing Company - Valley Mining Company. - The Summit Mine. - oakville Mining Company - New Burlington Mining company.-red Hill Mining Company. - Silver Bow Mining Company - overland Mining Company. Mutual Mining Company - Mammoth Mining Company. 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.

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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial became a national sensation. Despite Muybridge’s crime, the artist’s patron, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired the photographer to answer the question of whether the four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground all at once—and together these two unlikely men launched the age of visual media. Written with style and passion by National Book Award-winner Edward Ball, this riveting true-crime tale of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads puts on display the virtues and vices of the great American West.