Author: William Smith YeatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia
Author: William Smith YeatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire and CheshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Bulletin
Author: Georgia. Dept. of Mines, Mining, and GeologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Bulletin - Georgia. Geological Survey
Author: Georgia Geologic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Georgia Gold Rush
Author: David WilliamsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643364359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rush In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma. The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners. Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.
The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732 to 1860
Author: George Gilman SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People, 1732 To 1860 by George Gilman Smith, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Red Water, Black Gold
Author: Margaret A. BickersPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1625110286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Red Water, Black Gold: The Canadian River in Texas 1920–1999 tells the story of the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle. It is a tale of grand designs, high hopes, deep holes, politics, fishing, follies, foibles, and environmental change. Although efforts had been made to tap the Canadian River’s waters before 1920, the discovery of oil in the Panhandle gave new urgency to the search for permanent water supplies. Additionally, the spread of groundwater irrigation amid the discovery of the limits of Ogallala Aquifer spurred regional interests to tap the Canadian. But overestimates of the river’s flow and unfamiliarity with the critical role groundwater played in maintaining that flow led to complications and frustrations, culminating in a lawsuit over the location of the banks of a seemingly waterless river. This book is a valuable addition to the water history of Texas and the American West and to the growing body of worldwide regional water histories. Combining traditional historical sources with hydrology, climatology, and geology, Red Water, Black Gold complicates the traditional story of top-down water management as well as telling the thus-far untold story of the Canadian River in Texas.
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...
Author: Notes on Shotwick in the County of Chester
Author: Frank Charles BeazleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shotwick (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest
Author: Lois AllanPublisher: Fine Art Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This collection of the work of 48 artists represents the diverse conceptual and stylistic approaches to printmaking. Each artist focuses on a particular characteristic of printmaking -- the transferred image, the possibility of multiples, the inherent visual appearance resulting from the process. Essays on artists' works are included and focus more on aesthetics and content than on the mechanical process. Some of the featured artists include Glen Alps, Paul Berger, Joan Ross Blaedel, Byron Bratt, Eric Chesebro, Dennis Cunningham, Lockwood Dennis, and Eleanor Erskine.