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3) Bowie's mine
Author
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. When a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Horace and Augusta went to the mining camps of Colorado, worked hard, and became very rich by serving the miners with food, postal services, supplies, and politics. It was then, after twenty years of hard work and unity, Augusta was renounced as an embarrassment by a man who had or could buy anything in the world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
The drama of Baby Doe Tabor's life has inspired several biographies, a 1932 film starring Edward G. Robinson--even an opera--but never before a novel. Now the life and times of this legendary adventuress, miner, and home wrecker, and that of her daughter, Silver Dollar, have been vividly reimagined by a master of historical fiction.
Author
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Robert Hartland is a New York city slicker who knows nothing about mining. Boy, is he about to get an education. Looking for some adventure, he heads out to Montana with his father's butler to check on the family's investment in the Yellow Jacket mine. But the Silver City locals aren't about to let some greenhorn tell them what to do. To make it worse, his old girlfriend from back East shows up just as a new romance is beginning to bloom with Margaret...
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