Opis: Miss. Devereux of the Mariquita a Story of Bonanza Days in Nevada (Classic Reprint) - Savage Richard Henry

Excerpt from Miss. Devereux of the Mariquita a Story of Bonanza Days in Nevada

The State of Nevada enjoys the proud boast, in its recent history, of having unbosomed to the greedy hand of man the most compact mass of treasure ever discovered. Its gray mountain buttresses hide to-day uncounted millions. Its sage-brush plains, its stony wastes, its alkaline lakes, its wind-swept gorges, never invited the thrifty Mormons, who fifty years ago were impelled by that uncrowned monarch, Brigham Young, to deftly seize California. The trifling evidences of gold found in the Carson and the Humboldt were ignored by the Mormon spies, who seized a few fertile oases in this gloomy land of the Piutes. It was a land without a history, until the secret of the mountain gnomes was stolen by Comstock on the flinty breast of Mount Davidson. In 1845, the splendid mind of Brigham Young, dreaming dreams far beyond even the magnificent Aaron Burr, was turned to Mexico, to Arizona, to California, to even the smiling Sandwich Islands, those gems of the blue Pacific. James Marshall, the millwright, of Culloma, called the whole world to the "fierce race for wealth," when he picked up that little nugget at Sutter's mill. He founded by chance the self-evolved empire of the West, and thus foiled the policy of the astute Brigham, who never knew his humble mechanic enemy. California, the golden Star of the West in our ante-bellum days, incited the later explorations of Australia, South Africa, and our own Western territories, for hidden treasure.

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Szczegóły: Miss. Devereux of the Mariquita a Story of Bonanza Days in Nevada (Classic Reprint) - Savage Richard Henry

Nazwa: Miss. Devereux of the Mariquita a Story of Bonanza Days in Nevada (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Savage Richard Henry
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330224588
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 504
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Miss. Devereux of the Mariquita a Story of Bonanza Days in Nevada (Classic Reprint) - Savage Richard Henry