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Author | : Jack Langton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780982431207 |
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American personalities are a dime a dozen. Becoming a legend takes much more. Vernon J. Pick made the jump with his serendipitous prospecting discovery of yellowcake" in the southern Utah desert, gaining infamy as The Uranium King of America in 1954. The story of his discovery was told and retold at that time in the likes of Time and Fortune magazines, but only now has the depth of his persona and his discovery's influence on the future of American minerals exploration been made clear through the literary meanderings of his erstwhile protege, Jack M. Langton. First casting a spotlight on the genesis of his own career, Langton recounts his days and adventures with Pick in the Arctic tundra, building a personal view of the man and his extraordinary vision. Descriptions of Pick's magnificently wrought retreats at Walden West in California and Walden North in British Columbia are interwoven with the dealings and antics of Pick and Langton in their quest for minerals and riches . . . tales sprinkled with privileged authenticity that only genuine friendship can achieve. From this vantage point he paints a vivid picture of the behind-the-scenes intrigue associated with Nelson Bunker Hunt's famous attempt to corner the world silver market, the demise of The Superior Oil Company, and the caste-like world of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation. Not since Upton Sinclair has such a stunning portrait been painted of the inner workings of an entire segment of American industrial society. A bit brash and not without guile, The Prospector and His Protege is in the end the personal story of a man both guided by the spirit of a legend and haunted by the personal destruction that unfulfilled striving for equal celebrity can bring . . . a chronicle of the Prospector and his Protege.
Author | : Jackson M. Langton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780759699861 |
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Author | : Jackson M. Langton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
ISBN | : 9781594534775 |
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Author | : John Carswell |
Publisher | : London : Cresset Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walstine G. Jones |
Publisher | : Icrew Digital Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781946739094 |
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An aging prospector returns to his claim in the Mojave Desert in his lifelong search for gold. Settle back, for a trip back in time, to the early 1900s, to the Mojave Desert. As you read The Prospector, you will smell the yellow Asters in bloom, hear the grinding of the equipment at the mines, feel the booms of dynamite going off, and feel the warm wind. From the summer heat to the winter cold, from the billowing smoke of the steam engines to the jackrabbits jumping and the coyotes howling, watch the black buzzards circling the mines.Walstine G. Jones always had a penchant for learning about things, as well as history. He expressed his many thoughts on events, both past and current. "Wally," as he was known, was a voracious reader, and seemed to have a great memory of events. To sit down and talk with him could almost be intimidating because his knowledge was so vast. Jones didn't really start writing short stories, the family history, and The Prospector, until after he retired from 30 years with Civil Service, among other jobs he had when younger, in addition to serving in World War 2, meeting and marrying Ruth, in 1938.
Author | : Ralph Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781435327207 |
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She remembered that sudden stab at her heart at the old lady's broken words, "He will be going away, lassie," and her cheek flamed hot again. "It is all nonsense," she repeated angrily, and there being no one to contradict her, she said it again with even greater emphasis. But suddenly she sat down, and before long she found herself smiling at the memory of the old lady's proud cry, "Could not? Ay, he could."
Author | : Ralph Connor (Pseudonym) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Patrick Grainville |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1991-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780916583682 |
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This extravagant novel marks the English-language debut of one of France's most exciting and controversial writers. At the center is a mysterious excavation site in southwest France, where the skull of a 500,000-year-old man has been discovered. Simon, a journalist assigned to do a story on the cave, is a voluptuary keenly responsive to his surroundings, finding an erotic patina over everything he sees, hears, touches, imagines.
Author | : Edward Schieffelin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Miners |
ISBN | : 9780806157733 |
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Collecting the words of an exceptional figure who embodied the western frontier, Craig offers readers insight into the mentality of prospector-adventurers during an age of discovery and of limitless potential.
Author | : W Bruce Fye |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199982376 |
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This groundbreaking book weaves together three important themes. It describes major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in the twentieth century, explains how the Mayo Clinic evolved from a family practice in Minnesota into one of the world's leading medical centers, and reveals how the invention of new technologies and procedures promoted specialization among physicians and surgeons. Caring for the Heart is written for general readers as well as health care professionals, historians, and policy analysts. Unlike traditional institutional or disease-focused histories, this book places individuals and events in national and international contexts that emphasize the interplay of medical, scientific, technological, social, political, and economic forces that have resulted in contemporary heart care. Patient stories and media perspectives are included throughout to help general readers understand the medical and technological developments that are described. The book is a synthetic study, but it is written so that readers may pick and choose the chapters of most interest to them. Another feature of the book is that readers may follow the stories without looking at the notes. Those who are interested in delving deeper into the main topics will find a wealth of carefully chosen references that offer greater detail and additional perspectives. The descriptions and interpretations that fill the book benefit from the fact that the author has been a practicing cardiologist and medical historian for almost four decades. This is mainly a twentieth-century story, but it begins earlier--before there were physicians who were identified as cardiologists and at a time when medical specialization was just emerging in America. The final chapter, which addresses present-day concerns about health care costs, counterbalances earlier ones that might be read as celebrations of new technologies.