Ricardo L. Garcia:Coal Camp Justice: Two Wrongs Make a Right
- Livres de poche 2001, ISBN: 9780826336972
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Sojourn Travel Adventures, Australia, 2001. Softcover (Side-stapled). New. 56 pages. camping and four wheel driving around Victoira's ghost towns and goldfields has plenty to off… Plus…
Sojourn Travel Adventures, Australia, 2001. Softcover (Side-stapled). New. 56 pages. camping and four wheel driving around Victoira's ghost towns and goldfields has plenty to offer. From day trips to extended weekends, this book provides something for everyone. 2WD and 4WD options are both covered. GPS readings have been included so you can pre-plot your whole journey or simply use them as a quick reference guide. All campsites are highlighted for quick reference. Whether it be panning for gold, visiting grave-sites, fossicking around old mines or simply strolling the main street in Walhalla, this book takes you deep into the heart of Victoria's gold discovery era. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Travel & Places. Inventory No: 18080002.., Sojourn Travel Adventures, 2001, 6, Victoria, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Very little wear to the book; rear top corner bumped. Jacket spine is sunned, 1/2" tear to the rear cover top right corner. Text is quite clean. 'The Canadian painter, Maxwell Bates, is one of the very few men who experienced and survived both the infamous 'long march' of Allied prisoners into Germany at the fall of France and the equally notorious march out of Germany before the advcaning Allied troops in 1945. . . . This account gives an intimate and detailed picture of life in the camps; from the hard physical labour in the salt mine and the organization of syndicates to the more personal events such as Christmas festivities and letters from home.' etc. Illustrated. 133 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Sono Nis Press, 1978, 3.25, Boston: Little Brown, 1955. 1st . Hardcover. Very good/good. Dust jacket is torn., Little Brown, 1955, 2.75, Canon M Ridgeway, Bowdon, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Paper covers are illustrated on the front with Chester Town Hall and lightly marked on the back, sound binding, clean pages Contains very many articles and letters on subjects including: The Neston Windmills; Pewter in Cheshire - Astbury Parish Church; Campaign Base at Rhyn Park, Chirk; Extent of Longdendale 1360; Cheshire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century - The Crewe Junction of 17th Century Cheshire-Hockenall Platts, Bickerton etc,; The Missing Malpas Chandeliers; Rhyn Park Camp; Bunbury Briefs; Freeman lists of Chester Pewterers 1474-1805; Chester Race Cup 1817; Weaverham Church, Discoveries in 1915; A Chester Baluster Glass of 1722; Wesley in Cheshire; Bowdon Church Helmet; May Day; Bellringers' jugs of Cheshire; Henry Prescott and the Election of a new Bishop 1707-8; The Turnpike Roads of Chester; Naylor's Astronomical Clock; Chester Industrial School; An Early Chester Theatre Bill of 1789; Chester Gold Cup 1766; The Georgian Mansion at Norton Priory; Joseph Farrington's Watercolour of Chester; War damage at Tarvin in the Civil War; The Hoole House Garden; Henry Prescott and Patronage; The Last Northwich Salt Mine. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51217061192.., Canon M Ridgeway, 1978, 4, San Francisco USA: John Howell - Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Introduction by David F. Myrick. Original plain dust jacket. Original green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 16 pp. photographs and illustrations. xxiii, (3) 228 pages clean and tight. Book in near fine condition. Part of introduction - Newspapers tell two stories. One, of course, is the events of the day as witnessed by the editor and the other is a measure of the activity of the community. Nevada newspapers cover both categories for their establishment records the rise of a mining camp and mark its decline with the editor's departure. It was mining that brought wealth and people in search of it to Nevada. Many of these people had only a transitory interest in a particular mining town for, lacking personal success, they moved on to other ventures. The life span of individual newspapers reflected this momentary interest. True the tenure of papers in county seats was more stable for they found advertising and subscription support from patrons whose residence outlasted a mining boom. Not all of the counties in Nevada could boast continued newspaper publication; Churchill County for decades had no local newspaper nor much of a local government for that matter. The short-lived Roop County was another exception. Nineteenth century papers in Nevada served as the medium to bring news and relief from tedium to the isolated camps. Transportation was limited to stages and the few railroads serving the northern part of the state. These editors had a real sphere in which to operate. Usually they had strong political convictions and the bounds of restraint were unfettered. Also by exchanging verbal brickbats with neighboring editors, they provided entertainment for the town and personal satisfaction for themselves. As one reads newspapers of today in the light of restained personal journalism now prevailing it is a wonder that more editors were not shot or at least given a good pommeling or a summons for a libel suit. Appropriate recourse at the time seemed to be to fight fire with fire, at least the editorial remarks would so indicate. The favorite sport of the late i86o's was to bait Brother Lewis of the Reno Crescent. Reno had been founded just one year before and Lewis moved his press shortly after the official town lot sale. The editor of the Carson Appeal, speaking of the route the Virginia and Truckee Railroad would follow through Carson City, described it this way: "Our pet railroad has taken a new direction. Instead of coming from the foothills west of Carson down Treadway's lane, it is surveyed to run across Miss Clapp's ranch, thence alongside our potato patch, in close proximity to the front door of our dwelling - in the direction of the Mint. If Lewis, of the Crescent, resided where we do, he could see that railroad track without looking beyond his nose - the extent of his vision." ., John Howell - Books, 1964, 3, Hardback. New. From the coal camps of northeastern New Mexico comes a tale of families and friends struggling to rise above working and living conditions In this prequel to Coal Camp Days, the Chicorico miners battle to establish a labour union that promises to rectify dangerous and oppressive mining conditions., 6<
