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Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers and Dry Gulchers Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting

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ISBN-10: 0762770643

ISBN-13: 9780762770649

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew P. Mayo

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For every forthright Forty-Niner pursuing high fortune and a better life in the streambeds and rocky draws of the frontier, the history of prospecting the vast frontier offers up hundreds of tales of parasitical people preying on gullible greenhorns and seeking easy egress to fortune and fame. The list of such precious-metal-and-gemstone-related larcenies in the Old West and the Far North is legion and long and ripe for the reading.These memorable moments are sometimes humorous, often shocking and brutal, and always all-too-true.Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchersoffers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

PhotographerJennifer Smith-Mayo, and her husband, writerMatthew P. Mayo, have lived in Maine for two decades—and counting! Jennifer specializes in photography of fine dining, rural living, and farming in the US, England, Ireland, Italy, and Scotland. Her photographs have appeared inDown East,National Geographic, theNew York Times, and others. Matthew is author of a number of novels and non-fiction books, includingBootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, and he has worked as an editor on a number of magazines.