Gold, Silver, and Guns

Gold, Silver, and Guns
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9780595460847
ISBN-13 : 0595460844
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Gold, Silver, and Guns by : George E. Smith

Life isn't easy in the 1860s on the western frontier as the discovery of gold and silver beckons prospectors, and the promise of cheap land attracts ranchers and farmers from the East Coast. It is a time of greed, lawlessness, self-preservation, and opportunity. The wayward Tom Lawson seizes the moment when he discovers a cache of silver near the town of Ribera in southern Arizona, between El Paso and Tucson. When the Lawson family receives word of Tom's silver strike, his brother Ben must decide whether to begin his medical career as planned or assist his brother. Reluctant but enticed, Ben moves from Colorado to Arizona to help his sibling. On the stagecoach ride from El Paso to Ribera, he and the other passengers are robbed. It becomes all too evident that the territory is under constant threat by Indians, renegade discharged Confederate soldiers, and disenfranchised Mexicans. Gold, Silver, and Guns follows the stories of Ben and five others who migrate to Ribera seeking adventure and fortune. As they discover that life in this agitated small town may pose challenges and risks far greater than the rewards, they each must weigh the price of what it takes to survive and prosper.

Their Fathersand' Guns

Their Fathersand' Guns
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Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781681394305
ISBN-13 : 1681394308
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Their Fathersand' Guns by : Paul Shoop

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Forest and Stream

Forest and Stream
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 604
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435062356480
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

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Citizen Soldiers

Citizen Soldiers
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 9781476740256
ISBN-13 : 1476740259
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Citizen Soldiers by : Stephen E. Ambrose

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

Empire of Guns

Empire of Guns
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 569
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ISBN-10 : 9780735221871
ISBN-13 : 0735221871
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Empire of Guns by : Priya Satia

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.

Commercial Year Book

Commercial Year Book
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112081931989
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Commercial Year Book by : Birmingham (England). Chamber of Commerce

Hemingway's Guns

Hemingway's Guns
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781586671600
ISBN-13 : 158667160X
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Hemingway's Guns by : Silvio Calabi

Ernest Hemingway is a mythic writer and alpha male. As a hunter and conservationist, he drew greatly from the strong example of Theodore Roosevelt, and he much enjoyed teaching newcomers to shoot and hunt. Including short excerpts from Hemingway's works, these stories of his guns and rifles tell us as much about him as a lifelong, expert hunter and shooter and as a man.

Herald and Presbyter

Herald and Presbyter
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 876
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ISBN-10 : UTEXAS:059172113917973
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

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