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Presents folklore and legends, heroes and villains, wars and important events in the history of the Old West. Includes also examples of Western art and music.
“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.
A collection of 25 fan favourite stories by various authors and based on the popular and classic television western Bonanza. Fifty years after the series first began, reruns and DVD viewings of Bonanza still enrapture audiences young and old. The show elevated its cast -- Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon -- into beloved stars around the world. Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright became household names and beloved characters.Revisit the Ponderosa and your favourite cowboys with this collection of stories. First appearing on the Bonanza World website and now officially licensed for publication by Bonanza Ventures, they serve as a testament and a loving tribute to one of the best television programs in history.
As caretaker to Boot Hill, Gospel Cummings carried a Bible on his left and a black-butted six-gun in a low-slung holster on his right. Gospel had a personal interest in those who died with their boots on, and of late, there had been so many that he could barely keep up with praying for their souls. Some of the trouble was caused by Cord Demingway, ramrod of an outlaw gang, and some of it was the fault of Pug Jones, who had his own band of followers. But more and more, the cause was a secret map pointing the way to an old Spanish treasure. It was making ruthless gunslingers out of usually honest cowboys who could then become the targets of other bonanza hunters - or they could draw first. One thing for sure was that getting to the treasure was treacherous business.
While Ben Cartwright crosses paths with San Francisco's waterfront king of crime during a visit there and must fight for his life, Ben's sons are driven from their ranch.