Mud, Blood, and Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mud, Blood, and Gold write by Rand Richards. This book was released on 2008. Mud, Blood, and Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. San Francisco in 1849 was a time and place like no other in American history. As word of the discovery of gold in California spread, people from all over the world descended on San Francisco--ground zero for the avalanche of humanity and goods pouring into the fabled El Dorado. There have been many books on the Gold Rush, but Mud, Blood, and Gold is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a 'you are there' immediacy author Rand Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, Richards chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.
Mud, Blood & Gold
Mud, Blood & Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mud, Blood & Gold write by Les Pitt. This book was released on 2016. Mud, Blood & Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Daylesford is a town built on the sweat of the working man in his pursuit of gold. Above an earth honeycombed with tunnels, men and women worked, drank, fought, intrigued and prospered. Below ground, the men dug in the dark seeking the one thing which would give them an easy life on the surface. Excerpts from the local papers give an insight into the early tumultuous years of Daylesford; the eccentrics, the drunks, the thieves, the prostitutes, the do-gooders and the notable men and women. This is Daylesford as the newspapers saw it, recorded faithfully by the reporters of the day.
City of Vice
City of Vice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Vice write by James Mallery. This book was released on 2024-06. City of Vice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. San Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I. In the era of yellow journalism, San Francisco’s popular presses broadcast shocking stories about the waterfront, Chinatown, Barbary Coast, hobo Main Stem, Uptown Tenderloin, and Outside Lands. The women and men who lived in these districts did not passively internalize the shaming of their bodies or neighborhoods. Rather, many urbanites intentionally sought out San Francisco’s “vice” and transient lodging districts. They came to identify themselves in ways opposed to hegemonic notions of whiteness, respectability, and middle-class heterosexual domesticity. With the destabilizing 1906 earthquake marking its halfway point, James Mallery’s City of Vice explores the imagined, cognitive mapping of the cityscape and the social history of the women and men who occupied its so-called transient and vice districts between the late nineteenth century and World War I.
Gangs and the Military
Gangs and the Military - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gangs and the Military write by Carter F. Smith. This book was released on 2019-09-20. Gangs and the Military available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past several decades, there has been a continuous and growing focus on street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and domestic extremist groups. Many of these groups have members with military training, and some actively recruit from current and former military veterans and retirees. That military experience adds to the dangerousness of veteran gang members, as well as those groups they associate with. Communities everywhere are experiencing the damaging impact of gang criminal behavior. By observing gang activity from the Revolutionary War to today Smith examines the presence of military-trained, often veteran, gang members in the communities. He looks at the turning points in gang investigations in the military, and also looks at the laws and policies designed to specifically counter the criminal activity the threats of gang activity pose on a community. Grounded in current knowledge and research, Gangs and the Military successfully addresses the growing presence of criminal gang members in the United States. As well as reflects on how the authorities that counter and combat them are doing so on a national and global level.
Mud Blood
Mud Blood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mud Blood write by Joan Del Monte. This book was released on 2008-11. Mud Blood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vera Moonachie is writing a mystery with criminal lawyer Fulton Yee. He won't tell her the murderer, so she won't drop hints. Abruptly, Fulton disappears. Now caught in a murder investigation, Vera goes to the storied Sacramento Delta to unravel the tangled skein of a bloody murder planned to resolve an old Sacramento Delta land dispute. Vera is drawn into the bizarre lives of an aging actor, a chef, and the hornet's nest of Fulton's feuding trio of lovers. As she walks a knife's edge between brutal rivals in an authorship dispute, Vera must find Fulton; find out why he disappeared; and find out who is the murderer in her own novel. And then, against an approaching book deadline, someone tries to kill Vera. Old agreements can be murder.
