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The Bonanza King

John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West

By: Gregory Crouch

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The Bonanza King

John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West

By: Gregory Crouch

“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.

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480

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Scribner

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1501108204

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9781501108204

Evidence

Text & Materials

By: Gregory Durston

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Evidence

Text & Materials

By: Gregory Durston

Providing an easily accessible source for students studying the law of evidence, this title fulfils the roles of both textbook and materials book, containing extracts from key cases and published articles.

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679

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0199583609

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9780199583607

Lazy Idle Schemers

Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Idleness

By: Gregory Dobbins

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Lazy Idle Schemers

Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Idleness

By: Gregory Dobbins

Gregory Dobbins argues that the cultural politics of Irish modernism lie precisely in its engagement with the concept of idleness.

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252

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Field Day Publications

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0946755507

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9780946755509

The Settlers' War

The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s

By: Gregory Michno

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The Settlers' War

The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s

By: Gregory Michno

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas’s hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War tells for the first time.

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465

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U of Nebraska Press

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0870045024

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9780870045028

The Heart of the Warrior

By: John Gregory Betancourt

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The Heart of the Warrior

By: John Gregory Betancourt

While a crucial peace conference fills Deep Space NineTM with rumors of intrigue and conspiracy, Major Kira and Lt. Commander Worf embark on a dangerous undercover mission deep into the heart of the Gamma Quadrant. Their mission: to find the secret of the addictive substance that the Changelings use to control their Jem'Hadar warriors. But how long can Worf and Kira remain undetected in the midst of the Dominion? Odo may be their only hope; but to save them, he'll have to stand against his own people.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743420489

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9780743420488

Book's by Gregory O Brien

The Bonanza King

The Bonanza King

Evidence

Evidence

Lazy Idle Schemers

Lazy Idle Schemers

The Settlers' War

The Settlers' War

The Heart of the Warrior

The Heart of the Warrior

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