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Author: Karen Dustman
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780983333104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of Alpine County's long-vanished original county seat from 1862 to the 1880s, with photos of this silver mining ghost town in its hey-day.
Author: Kris Lane
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0520383354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on earth. Potosí is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city’s rise and fall. It tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potosí’s startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth. Throughout, Kris Lane’s invigorating narrative offers rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A new world of native workers, market women, African slaves, and other ordinary residents who lived alongside the elite merchants, refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials, emerge in lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction of excess and devastation, Potosí reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.
Author: Cecile Page Vargo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0738595209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.
Author: Dana Velasco Murillo
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016-06-22
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0804799644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns, the need for labor, raw materials, resources, and foodstuffs brought together an array of different ethnic and social groups—Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and ethnically mixed individuals or castas. On the northern edge of the empire, 350 miles from Mexico City, sprung up Zacatecas, a silver-mining town that would grow in prominence to become the "Second City of New Spain." Urban Indians in a Silver City illuminates the social footprint of colonial Mexico's silver mining district. It reveals the men, women, children, and families that shaped indigenous society and shifts the view of indigenous peoples from mere laborers to settlers and vecinos (municipal residents). Dana Velasco Murillo shows how native peoples exploited the urban milieu to create multiple statuses and identities that allowed them to live in Zacatecas as both Indians and vecinos. In reconsidering traditional paradigms about ethnicity and identity among the urban Indian population, she raises larger questions about the nature and rate of cultural change in the Mexican north.
Author: Kelly Suzanne Hartman, with contributions by Cooke City Montana Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1467142891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith claims staked, 1870s prospectors at Cooke City patiently waited for adequate transportation to get their ore to market. Eager enough, they named the town in honor of Northern Pacific tycoon Jay Cooke. Ironically, Cooke's influence in creating Yellowstone National Park stunted the growth of the town, as the park blocked any efforts to support a railroad through its borders. For more than sixty years, residents waited for rail until a new economy took hold--tourism. The dreams of the miners still live on in tumble-down shacks and rusty old mining equipment. And the successful vision of entrepreneurs offering rustic relaxation at the doorstep of Yellowstone continues to lure visitors. Historian Kelly Hartman recounts the saga that left hundreds battling for a railroad that never came.
Author: Olivia Noble
Publisher: ThunderWords
Published: 2021-12-21
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey say he’s so grumpy that he never speaks. He only growls. I’m not intimidated. My boss sent me to deep backwoods Vermont to get Garland McGrumpypants—I mean McGuinty, to sell some of his lucrative landholdings on Silver Mountain. And I NEED this commission. McGrumpy only likes kids, animals, and his giant axe… he definitely doesn’t like me. When our meeting goes horribly wrong, and an avalanche causes my car to be nearly crushed under a pile of snow… I’m rescued by the massive hermit himself. No cell service, no road access, no escape. I am STUCK with Grumpy, and this Christmas couldn’t get any worse! Garland Her name is Ava, and she’s the unluckiest woman I’ve ever met. She spills every drink she touches all over herself, she trips over her shadow… and somehow, when she comes around, the whole mountain falls apart. So why do I have a strange urge to protect her and take care of her? Damn this crazy woman. She will be the death of me. A sweet and steamy holiday romance with a guaranteed HEA! Slow burn, over the top, laugh out loud romantic comedy. Themes: mountain man romance, forced proximity, billionaire romance, enemies to lovers, age gap romance, contemporary romance, romantic comedy, steamy romantic suspense, strong heroine, dominant alpha male, free, freebie, dangerous romance, sensual romance, sassy heroine, romance novels for women, romance novels free, contemporary adult romance, adult romance books, rich hero, wealthy hero, American heroine, love story, happily ever after, happy ever after, contemporary romance and sex, true love, romance billionaire series, sexy romance, new adult romance, romance and drama, snowed in romance, grumpy boss romance, small town steamy romance, office romance, fun flirty reads, holiday romance, workplace romantic comedy, spicy romance. For fans of: Lexy Timms, Skye Warren, Kennedy Fox, Melanie Harlow, Penelope Ward, M. S. Parker, Cassie Mint, Piper Rayne, Elle Kennedy, Anna Todd, Ayla Asher, Sofia T Summers, Emma Slate, Ava Gray, Louise Bay, Elle James, Hannah Grace, Tessa Bailey, J.S. Scott, Ellis O. Day, Aleatha Romig.
Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0316317691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis breathtaking, full-color illustrated fantasy is inspired by Chinese folklore, and is a companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most thrilling tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a mysterious boy who seems to have his own secrets to hide. Together, the two must face obstacles usually found only in legends to find the Luminous Stone and save Pinmei's grandmother--before it's too late. A fast-paced adventure that is extraordinarily written and beautifully illustrated, When the Sea Turned to Silver is a masterpiece companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky.
Author: P. David Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781890437367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a "silver rush" with an output of precious metals second in Colorado only to that of Leadville. In a period of less than twenty-five years, more than thirty million dollars in silver, lead, zinc, copper, and gold were taken from the rich deposits in the mines along Red Mountain Divide -- an amount roughly equivalent to a quarter billion of today's dollars. The histories of the communities that sprang into being with these mines, the railroads constructed to service them, and the men and women who lived, worked and died in them, are the threads deftly woven into the richly textured story of Mountains of Silver. It is a colorful and varied tapestry that depicts the lives of prospectors who made the first rich strikes; the land promoters, speculators, and road-and-railroad builders who capitalized on the frenzied rush to the area; and the motley collection of miners, lawyers, merchants, prostitutes, saloonkeepers, and freighters who attempted to profit from the boom.
Author: Richard Kellogg
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781892384287
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