Author: Sons of the American Revolution. California SocietyPublisher: San Francisco, Cal., The Society
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Addresses Delivered Before the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Author: Sons of the American Revolution. California SocietyPublisher: San Francisco, Cal., The Society
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Pacific Unitarian
Author: Gold-Mining Boomtown
Author: Roberta Key HaldanePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday. Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its frontier incarnation, located a scant twenty-eight miles from the notorious Lincoln, is remembered largely because of its association with famous westerners. Billy the Kid and his gang were familiar visitors to the town. When a popular deputy was gunned down in 1880, the citizens resolved to rid their community of outlaws. Pat Garrett, running for sheriff of Lincoln County, was soon campaigning in White Oaks. But there was more to the town than gold mining and frontier violence. In addition to outlaws, lawmen, and miners, Haldane introduces readers to ranchers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and stagecoach owners. José Aguayo, a lawyer from an old Spanish family, defended Billy the Kid, survived the Lincoln County War, and moved to the White Oaks vicinity in 1890, where his family became famous for the goat cheese they sold to the town’s elite. Readers also meet a New England sea captain and his wife (a Samoan princess, no less), a black entrepreneur, Chinese miners, the “Cattle Queen of New Mexico,” and an undertaker with an international criminal past. The White Oaks that Haldane uncovers—and depicts with lively prose and more than 250 photographs—is a microcosm of the Old West in its diversity and evolution from mining camp to thriving burg to the near–ghost town it is today. Anyone interested in the history of the Southwest will enjoy this richly detailed account.
Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Report of the State Mineralogist
Author: The Mercantile Agency Reference Book for the British Provinces
Author: Mercantile Agency (Montreal, Quebec)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Credit ratings
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...
Author: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...
Author: CaliforniaThe Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
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