Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of IllusionUniversity of California Press, 11.01.1988 - 622 Seiten This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history. |
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The Trail to Gold | 32 |
Borax Bonanza | 173 |
GOLD AND GAS | 187 |
The Montgomery Brothers | 189 |
Bullfrog | 203 |
Mysterious Scott | 242 |
Heart of Gold | 275 |
A Copper Frenzy | 310 |
Resurrection | 338 |
Into the Jaws of Hell | 39 |
A Hard Lesson | 52 |
Gunsight Silver and the Wonderful Bailey Ore | 59 |
Alvord and Breyfogle | 69 |
Camels Frauds and Lost Guides | 80 |
THE POCKET MINERS | 99 |
Tom Shaws Country | 101 |
Panamint The Wonder of the World | 113 |
The Education of Jonas Osborne | 135 |
On the New York Exchange | 143 |
Starving to Death on a Government Claim | 162 |
Facts Fantasies and Flivvers | 360 |
SALT AND SCENERY | 377 |
The Salt of the Earth | 379 |
Mostly Mud and Rock | 397 |
The Hangerson | 412 |
The Last Hurrah | 421 |
A Nice Place to Visit | 441 |
Notes | 471 |
Bibliography | 581 |
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Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion Richard E. Lingenfelter Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1986 |
Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion Richard E. Lingenfelter Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1988 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amargosa Angeles Examiner April April 15 August Ballarat Beatty Bullfrog Miner Bishop Inyo Register bonanza boom Borax Breyfogle camp Canyon claims Copper Death Valley National Death Valley Scotty December December 15 Desert Magazine February February 17 finally Furnace Creek George Gerard Gold Mountain Goldfield Greenwater Gunsight Hafen Independence Inyo Independent investors Inyo County January Jayhawkers Julian July June ledge Lida lode Los Angeles Examiner Los Angeles Star Manly March miles mill million Mining and Scientific Mining Company Mining District Mojave Montgomery November November 26 October Owens Valley Owens Valley Herald Pacific Paiute Panamint Pioneer prospectors railroad ranch Rhyolite Bullfrog Miner Rhyolite Herald rich rock Salt Lake San Bernardino San Francisco Mining Schwab Scientific Press Scotty Scotty's September shares Shoshone silver Skidoo started Tecopa Tonopah Tonopah Mining Reporter Tonopah Nevada Mining Valley National Monument Valley's wagons West