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Snow-Bound at Eagle's
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Bret Harte |
For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upwar… |
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Darkness in El Dorado
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Patrick Tierney |
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes. |
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The Wisconsin lead region
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Joseph Schafer |
Joseph Schafer (1867-1941) received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and went on to 16 years’ service as the chairman of the History faculty at the University of Oregon. In 1920 he returned t… |
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Keeley
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Deborah Ellis |
Takes readers back to the scene of the worst landslide in North America's history - Frank, Alberta (then the Northwest Territories). It was there, in 1901, in the shadow of Turtle Mountain, that mine… |
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Germinal
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Émile Zola |
Sous le Second Empire, dans le nord de la France, le jeune Étienne Lantier incite les mineurs à se révolter contre leurs misérables conditions de vie. Romancier naturaliste, Zola n'accorde de valeur… |
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L'enfer d'amiante
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Alain J. Marillac |
Dan Rixes, le héros à tout faire, devient "dynamiteur" dans une mine d'amiante gérée par un patron peu scrupuleux. Grâce à ses contacts, Dan évitera une catastrophe. Une trame prévisible, au démarrag… |
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The Klondike gold rush
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Marc Tyler Nobleman |
Describes the Yukon gold rush which was the biggest and last of the great northern gold rushes of the 19th century. |
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Gold seekers of the 1890s
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Mimi Colligan |
The eastern goldfields - Life in the towns. |
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