Mud Blood And Gold

Author : Rand Richards
Publisher : Heritage House Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1879367068

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Mud, Blood, and Gold by Rand Richards Pdf

San Francisco in 1849 was a time and place like no other in American history. As word of the discovery of gold in California spread, people from all over the world descended on San Francisco--ground zero for the avalanche of humanity and goods pouring into the fabled El Dorado. There have been many books on the Gold Rush, but Mud, Blood, and Gold is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a 'you are there' immediacy author Rand Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, Richards chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.

Author : Carter F. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538135457

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Gangs and the Military by Carter F. Smith Pdf

Over the past several decades, there has been a continuous and growing focus on street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and domestic extremist groups. Many of these groups have members with military training, and some actively recruit from current and former military veterans and retirees. That military experience adds to the dangerousness of veteran gang members, as well as those groups they associate with. Communities everywhere are experiencing the damaging impact of gang criminal behavior. By observing gang activity from the Revolutionary War to today Smith examines the presence of military-trained, often veteran, gang members in the communities. He looks at the turning points in gang investigations in the military, and also looks at the laws and policies designed to specifically counter the criminal activity the threats of gang activity pose on a community. Grounded in current knowledge and research, Gangs and the Military successfully addresses the growing presence of criminal gang members in the United States. As well as reflects on how the authorities that counter and combat them are doing so on a national and global level.

Author : Michael Cadnum
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781504019699

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Blood Gold by Michael Cadnum Pdf

From the jungles of Panama to the gold fields of California, a young man searches for justice In 1849, there are 2 ways to reach California: overland or by sea. Traveling by land is safer—a long, slow journey across the American plains—but the water is faster. Would-be prospectors in a hurry to reach California and strike it rich, sail down the Atlantic, cross the deadly jungles of Panama on foot, and proceed north by boat to find their fortune. Willie Dwinelle, who is 18 years old, chooses this Panama route because he must reach California as soon as possible. But it is not gold that he seeks; it is justice. Willie has vowed revenge upon an unsavory character in his hometown who mistreated one of his friends. So with his impulsive ally Ben at his side, Willie braves every danger the gold rush throws at him. But the most perilous hazard is one he never expected to confront: the lure of greed.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307798114

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The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. Praise for The Proud Tower “[Barbara W. Tuchman’s] Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August was an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914–1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world.”—Newsweek “A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration.”—The New York Times “An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author’s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more.”—Chicago Tribune “[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding.”—Time

Author : Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai,Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly,Paul Spickard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496206633

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Shape Shifters by Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai,Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly,Paul Spickard Pdf

Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static “either/or” categories of racial identification found within typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable. This volume expands our understandings of how individuals and ethnic groups identify themselves within their own sociohistorical contexts. The essays in Shape Shifters explore different historical eras and reach across the globe, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of classical antiquity to medieval Eurasian shape shifters, the Native peoples of the missions of Spanish California, and racial shape shifting among African Americans in the post–civil rights era. At different times in their lives or over generations in their families, racial shape shifters have moved from one social context to another. And as new social contexts were imposed on them, identities have even changed from one group to another. This is not racial, ethnic, or religious imposture. It is simply the way that people’s lives unfold in fluid sociohistorical circumstances. With contributions by Ryan Abrecht, George J. Sánchez, Laura Moore, and Margaret Hunter, among others, Shape Shifters explores the forces of migration, borderlands, trade, warfare, occupation, colonial imposition, and the creation and dissolution of states and empires to highlight the historically contingent basis of identification among mixed-race peoples across time and space.

Author : James Mallery
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496239402

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City of Vice by James Mallery Pdf

San Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I. In the era of yellow journalism, San Francisco’s popular presses broadcast shocking stories about the waterfront, Chinatown, Barbary Coast, hobo Main Stem, Uptown Tenderloin, and Outside Lands. The women and men who lived in these districts did not passively internalize the shaming of their bodies or neighborhoods. Rather, many urbanites intentionally sought out San Francisco’s “vice” and transient lodging districts. They came to identify themselves in ways opposed to hegemonic notions of whiteness, respectability, and middle-class heterosexual domesticity. With the destabilizing 1906 earthquake marking its halfway point, James Mallery’s City of Vice explores the imagined, cognitive mapping of the cityscape and the social history of the women and men who occupied its so-called transient and vice districts between the late nineteenth century and World War I.

Author : Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147200

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Quotable San Francisco: Historic Moments in Memorable Words by Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen Pdf

San Francisco surged from hamlet to boomtown overnight--the most meteoric "instant city" in history. From the Gold Rush to the Tech Rush, it's been the site of daring innovations, counterculture upheavals and social rebellions that shaped generations. Over the decades, residents have offered unique perspectives through journals, letters and newspapers, their words bringing another time to life. Discover San Francisco through the eyes of miners and "ladies of the night." Relive the experiences of robber barons and beatniks who flourished in a tiny corner of the world with fewer than one million souls. With commentary, background and extraordinary images, historians Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen guide you through these colorful quotes, showing the city as it once was and what it aspired to be.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476619040

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Settlers of the American West by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers—the gold-crazed ’49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created demand for a gamut of unsung adventurers—surveyors, financiers, politicians, surgeons, entertainers, grocers and midwives—who built communities and businesses in the wilderness amid clashes with Indians, epidemics, floods, droughts and outlawry. Chronicling the worthy deeds, ethnicities, languages and lifestyles of ordinary people who survived a stirring period in American history, this book provides biographical information for hundreds of individual pioneers on the North American frontier, from the Mississippi River Valley as far west as Alaska. Appendices list pioneers by state or country of departure, destination, ethnicity, religion and occupation. A chronology of pioneer achievements places them in perspective.

Author : Gary Kamiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781620401255

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Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya Pdf

"A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical . . . Kamiya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." -New York Times Book Review The bestselling love letter to one of the world's great cities, San Francisco, by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon. Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal history, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End. Encompassing the city's Spanish missionary past, a gold rush, a couple of earthquakes, the Beats, the hippies, and the dot-com boom, this book is at once a rambling walking tour, a natural and human history, and a celebration of place itself-a guide to loving any city more faithfully and fully. For readers of E. B. White's Here is New York, Jose Saramago's Journey to Portugal, or Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, Cool, Gray City of Love is an ambitious, insightful one-of-a-kind book for a one-of-a-kind city.

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0965271412

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Blood and Gold, Or, The Story of Marius by Anne Rice Pdf

Once a proud senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a "blood god" by druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of the queen and king of the vampires.

Author : Joan Del Monte
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9780595489251

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Mud Blood by Joan Del Monte Pdf

Vera Moonachie is writing a mystery with criminal lawyer Fulton Yee. He won't tell her the murderer, so she won't drop hints. Abruptly, Fulton disappears. Now caught in a murder investigation, Vera goes to the storied Sacramento Delta to unravel the tangled skein of a bloody murder planned to resolve an old Sacramento Delta land dispute. Vera is drawn into the bizarre lives of an aging actor, a chef, and the hornet's nest of Fulton's feuding trio of lovers. As she walks a knife's edge between brutal rivals in an authorship dispute, Vera must find Fulton; find out why he disappeared; and find out who is the murderer in her own novel. And then, against an approaching book deadline, someone tries to kill Vera. Old agreements can be murder.

Author : Vedant Sharma
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789355094742

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Mudblood and The Balask Diamond by Vedant Sharma Pdf

welcome to wizarding world lucus brown a muggle (a person who is not a born wizard) one day he got letter of Hogwart school, he had never listen of hogwart before and by letter found out that he is a wizard and got place in school of hogwart of magic, he found two friend of name vartika merlan, boghan nil. then the adventure begin, he found about a diamond and a prediction about him that he will be one to kill daikin who killed thousand of people who rebel again him and in last stuck two unanswered question, from there the incredible adventure of supreme power and fight begin.

Author : Todhunter Ballard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:244114090

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Blood and Gold by Todhunter Ballard Pdf

Author : Todhunter Ballard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : OCLC:1088565473

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Blood and Gold by Todhunter Ballard Pdf

Author : Lizzi Tremayne
Publisher : Blue Mist Publishing
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780994143112

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The Hills of Gold Unchanging by Lizzi Tremayne Pdf

As the Civil War rages, secessionists menace California. The Confederates want the state and they'll stop at nothing to take it. UTAH TERRITORY, 1860. On a wagon train headed for Xavier’s family rancho in the Golden State, Aleksandra makes a dangerous enemy of a gun-running Confederate when she fights her way out of his unwelcome embrace. After a late-night poker game, Xavier's new friends realize he’s heard too much to be allowed to live. Embroiled in the Confederates' fight to drag the new state from the Union and make it their own, can Aleks and Xavier survive? The secessionists mean business. The Hills of Gold Unchanging is the second book in the outstanding The Long Trails historical fiction series. If you like bold women, authentic multicultural settings, and a dash of Old West romance, then you’ll love Lizzi Tremayne’s fast-paced adventures! Buy The Hills of Gold Unchanging to ride off into the frontier today! Just click the Ebook button above!