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Orphaned by murderers when young, Val Trevallion and Grita Redaway meet again as adults, he a hardened loner and she an aspiring actress, during the world's greatest silver strike.

There's silver out there, Sabrina Eckhart is sure of it. And when she finds the hidden mine on her piece of West Texas desert, all of her financial problems are solved. That is, if she can find it. The man with the skills she needs is PI Alex Justice - former Navy pilot and current pain in the neck. When mysterious "accidents" start to plague their search, it seems Rina's multi-acre inheritance might be more a curse than a blessing. And if they don't...

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.

McPhee's account of geological field trips in the Great Basin, primarily in Nevada, in the company of geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes, including Deffeyes's search for recoverable silver from old mine sites

The Depression continues to hold an icy grip on New Bedford through the winter of 1933. Grace tries to find love with Del but that proves to be difficult. Hub gets his first dose of "The fever" and Fat finds out about the "birds and the bees" in the process. Honey and Max build their new life together while Bob and Toppy's marriage is crumbling. Many of the other townsfolk have fallen on hard times in the wake of the Silver Dome Mine closure but matriarch...

As they work the silver mines of Montana, the ambitious Connolly brothers dream of riches and adventure. Seduced by rumors of a greater prize to the north, they embark on a dangerous journey to the heart of the Yukon in this epic tale of greed, love, betrayal, and gold. As they become increasingly corrupted by the lust for power and wealth, the Connollys must stick together if they are to survive the harsh realities of the Yukon.

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.

Traces the rags-to-riches frontier story of Irish immigrant John Mackay, describing how in mid-nineteenth-century Nevada he outmaneuvered the pernicious "Bank Ring" monopoly and thousands of rivals to take control of the history-making Comstock Lode.