Alycia alvarez (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of Gold on the American River in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims panned out, thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the Sacramento Valley. Some camps disappeared along with the easy placer gold; others found new methods to extract gold deposited deep in quartz veins or underground and developed into stable towns that still stand. Sometimes washing whole hillsides into rivers, hydraulic mining was outlawed in the 1880s, but the colorful characters and tall tales of the Gold Rush live on.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Rocklin is a town built on and named for granite rock. Forty-niners headed for Placer County gold fields noticed gleaming boulders scattered among the oak and pine, but a decade passed before the first Rocklin quarry supplied granite blocks to build the state capitol in Sacramento. By 1910 there were 22 quarries chiseling stone to build, among many, the United States Mint and city hall in San Francisco, Oakland s civic auditorium, the San Joaquin, Solano, and Placer County courthouses, and Rocklin s own city hall after it incorporated in 1893. The quarries and the Central Pacific Railroad, which built a roundhouse in Rocklin in 1866, attracted a large number of Finns, who at one time made up a majority of Rocklin residents. But no matter what their point of origin, Rockliners loved sports, forming baseball teams and frequenting a racetrack where quarry owners ran horses with names like Golden State, Moko Boy, and Shamrock.…

Zustand: New. 2004. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. 2005. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorCo-authors Carmel Barry-Schweyer and Alycia S. Alvarez have combined here their respective skills as historian and curator of the Placer County Department of Museums.Tracking down the finest images from the county arch.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorCo-authors Carmel Barry-Schweyer, archivist and historian, and Alycia S. Alvarez, museum curator, have mined these images from the vast photographic collection of the Placer County Department of Museums to portray this.