Author: Ronald Richard Roberts Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781854717825
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Ronald R. Roberts
Publisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 9780451182661
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Author: Ronald R. Roberts
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 9780525272564
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Ronald Richard Roberts
Publisher: NAL
ISBN: 9780452272569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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The tragic romance between Pancetta Jackson, a lonely farmer's wife, and Ronald Concave, a disgruntled, talentless freelance photographer, somewhere in Idaho.

Author: Dom Lindars
Publisher: Nevada City History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 884

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This book tells the history of Nevada City, California, through the eyes of the men that built it. For its first 100 years, everything in Nevada City revolved around gold. But this is not another book about finding gold. To get gold, you needed water — to pan for it, to wash it in a sluice, to blast away a hillside with an immense water cannon, or to turn the water wheel of a quartz-ore stamp mill. This book instead asks: How did they get the water? It reveals the engineering marvels that brought water to Nevada City’s dry hills from tens of miles away. But what if all the water in every ravine, creek and valley around Nevada City was controlled by just three men? Well, for three decades, every miner, farmer or business could only buy water from the powerful South Yuba Canal Company. What would happen if you got into an argument with them? Or couldn’t afford to pay their water bill? Or even dared to compete with them? The book traces the ingenuity and hard work of the town’s miners and ditch builders, highlighting in detail the history and origins of various local neighborhoods, including Nevada City itself, Hirschman's Pond, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deer Creek, Scotts Flat, Manzanita Diggings, Gold Flat and various mining camps along Washington Ridge. This vivid portrayal follows the area’s evolution from the chaos of thousands of miners scratching out a living in clusters of muddy tents to a genteel town with hotels, stores, banks, theaters and libraries. What began as a search to uncover a sprawling network of old ditches, turned into a collection of never-before-told stories of the gold miners, the ruthless and greedy ditch company, and the rivals that it crushed. The domineering ditch company later enabled the next generation of monopoly to provide electrical power. The story of PG&E also started in Nevada City. This, in turn, led to the now more forward-looking stewardship of the Nevada Irrigation District. The unique format of this book blends beautiful archival images with more than 35 in-depth biographies of key figures in Nevada City. This 884 page hardcover book includes over 600 photos and illustrations, including 200 historic photographs and 75 hand-crafted maps based on modern lidar technology that reveal the locations of the old mining ditches, flumes, mines and tunnels.

Author: David Willbern
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786474505
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.

Author: California Public Utilities Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1388

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Author: California Public Utilities Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1428

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Author: California. Division of Fish and Game
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 1434

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