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6 produkter
Nature's Mountain Mansion
Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite
Av Gary Noy
Häftad, 2022
339 kr
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Nature’s Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country’s most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide …
Gem of the Sierra
Schemes and Splendor in Nineteenth-Century Lake Tahoe
Av Gary Noy
Häftad, 2024
342 kr
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This anthology features selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents of the nineteenth century that chronicle the splendor, the exploitation, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved alpine lake on the California-Nevada border.
Sierra Stories
Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues
Av Gary Noy
Häftad, 2014
294 kr
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The Sierra Nevada, with its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous …
Gold Rush Stories
49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
Av Gary Noy
Häftad, 2017
347 kr
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Exploring the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it.In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. …
Hellacious California!
Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
Av Gary Noy
Häftad, 2020
248 kr
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Hellacious California! tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State.In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and …
