Author: Pages of History (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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Author: Mary HillGold
Author: Mary HillPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The discovery of gold in 1848 catapulted California into statehood and triggered environmental, social, political, and economic events whose repercussions are still felt today. Mary Hill combines her scientific training with a flair for storytelling to present the history of gold in California from the distant geological past through the wild days of the Gold Rush to the present. The early days of gold fever drew would-be miners from around the world, many enduring great hardships to reach California. Once here, they found mining to be backbreaking work and devised machines to help recover gold. These machines pawed gravel from river bottoms and tore apart mountainsides, wreaking environmental havoc that silted rivers, ruined farmlands, and provoked the world's first environmental conflict settled in the courts. Native Americans were nearly wiped out by invading miners or their diseases, and many Spanish-speaking settlers—Californios—were pushed aside. Hill writes of gold's uses in today's world for everything from coins to coffins, gourmet foods to spacecraft. Her comprehensive overview of gold's impact on California includes illustrated explanations of geology and mining in nontechnical language as well as numerous illustrations, maps, and photographs.
Author: Larry Jr Clinton
Author: Field & Stream
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
The Dumpster Diver
Author: Janet S. WongPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763623807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
Three Feet from Gold Master Course Deep Dive Action Guide
Author: Sharon L. Lechter CPAPublisher: Sound Wisdom
ISBN: 1640952217
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” –Napoleon Hill The Three Feet from Gold Master Course is your personal deep dive into the fundamental characteristics that distinguish those who “make it” from the average individual. It provides concrete action steps for you to refine your definite major purpose, develop the mindset and behaviors necessary to achieve it, and make the law of attraction work in your favor. From defining your personal success equation, to cultivating a pleasing personality, to forming your mastermind alliance, to harnessing the power of Cosmic Habitforce, this comprehensive program is jam-packed with lessons, exercises, activities, and application guides on the key principles in Three Feet from Gold that will equip you for personal transformation and unlimited achievement. The course offers both “primer” and “master” sessions so that you can return to it and dig even deeper as you progress in your personal success journey. This in depth master course on the bestselling business allegory Three Feet from Gold will help you realize your vision of success through eighteen modules on Napoleon Hill’s timeless achievement principles. Success is not about luck, connections, education, or economic privilege—it is about simple, daily thought habits that translate into dynamic action, giving you the “stickability” you need to thrive in the face of temporary defeat and create the life you’ve always wanted for yourself. You are just three feet from gold…now is the time to take action on your dreams to discover the success that is in store for you.
The Northern Gold Fleet
Author: Clark C. SpencePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252022180
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Northern Gold Fleet is the story of how new gold-dredging technology was applied to the rich placers of the Far North from 1899 to the present, leading to mass production and economies of scale that made previously unprofitable resources profitable. The bucket-ladder dredge was a single, complex apparatus that rivaled ocean freighters in size. At once ugly, spectacular, and awesome, the dredges dug, classified materials, and performed gold-saving and tailing-disposal functions. A richly illustrated and comprehensive history. The Northern Gold Fleet is part environmental, part technological, part corporate, part labor, and part Alaskan in its thrust, offering a picture - both dazzling and absorbing - of how new technology simultaneously helped build the economy and lay waste the resources of Alaska.
