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Author | : Robert Graysmith |
Publisher | : Monkey's Paw Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1736580086 |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac, Auto Focus, and Black Fire. SO CLOSE TO SHORE, SO FAR FROM FORTUNE. WITH THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD, THEY CAME. San Francisco, 1849. Some arrived by land, but most came by sea. From packet to clipper, the first steamers, and even a stolen paddlewheeler, ships of every kind poured in through the Golden Gate. Packed to the gills with passengers and bursting to the brim with valuable cargo, they crowded Yerba Buena Cove. The perfect harbor in every way except one fatal flaw—its shallow waters offered no passage to shore. Fever overtook even the heartiest of men. Passengers and crew alike jumped ship and swam ashore. Within sight of their prize destination, a thousand majestic vessels were left adrift. Each incapacitated vessel’s fate locked in by the next. Some dedicated captains remained aboard these derelict hulks, in a short time forming a fantastic floating city, Graveyard Harbor. Families, commerce, intrigue, and crime all thrived and died within its skeletal framework. Among them were captains held hostage by their own cargo, families that could not afford nor find housing on land, criminals hiding out from the law, and their pursuers hot on their heels. A LANDLOCKED CAPTAIN. A KILLER WHO LOOKED LIKE CHRIST. HIS UNFORTUNATE DOPPELGÄNGER. THE BLOODTHIRST OF SAN FRANCISCO’S FIRST VIGILANTE SOCIETY. AND THE TEXAS RANGER TURNED SAN FRANCISCO SHERIFF. WOULD CRIME, JUSTICE OR VIGILANTISM PREVAIL? Illustrations by the author.
Author | : Carolee R. Inskeep |
Publisher | : Ancestry Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780916489892 |
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Trying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps"" has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property values, a lack of space, health concerns, and government regulation have all conspired to move the dead from one graveyard to the next. The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries documents the changing landscape of New York City cemeteries, telling the story behind each decision to move, as well as providing the new names and locations of each burial ground. This book, with its complete index, is an invaluable tool for anyone researching New York City ancestors.""
Author | : Roxie J. Zwicker |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467150312 |
Download Maine Book of the Dead: Graveyard Legends and Lore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Maine's graveyards contain the ancient memories and last words of woodsmen, lighthouse keepers, inventors, sea captains and the people who called this rugged land home. In an island cemetery rests Tall Barney, a six-foot-seven folk hero who single-handedly took down fifteen men in a Portland bar. Kittery holds the grave for the crew of the doomed ship the Hattie Eaton. Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor is the final resting place for the famed "Sky Blue Madam" Fanny Jones and Public Enemy No. 1, gangster Al Brady. Camp Etna contains the grave of famed medium Mary Vanderbilt. Dead Man's Gulch in Wales holds many eerie tales of ghosts that refuse to leave. Join renowned author and tour guide Roxie Zwicker as she explores Maine's historic and legendary graveyards.
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Alaska |
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Author | : Daughters of the American Revolution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Mark L. Thompson |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2004-04-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780814332269 |
Download Graveyard of the Lakes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
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Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Ira Wesley Kitmacher |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2020-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439672954 |
Download Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Despite its idyllic setting, the coast of the Pacific Northwest has another, darker name by which it is known: the "Graveyard of the Pacific." Two thousand ships and countless lives have been lost to the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and the Columbia River has claimed many more. The spirits of early settlers, Native Americans and drowned mariners are said to linger near the shores. From ghostly treasure hunters eternally searching for buried gold to a graveyard filled with souls that met violent ends, legends abound. Join author Ira Wesley Kitmacher as he uncovers mysterious tales and takes readers on a road trip through this most haunted place in America.
Author | : Joseph Mitchell |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307377636 |
Download The Bottom of the Harbor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he introduces, every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city. All of the pieces here are connected in one way or another--some directly, some with a kind of mysterious circuitousness--to New York's fabled waterfront, the terrain that Mitchell brilliantly made his own. They tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms, deserted communities, once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. Included are "Up in the Old Hotel," a portrait of Louis Morino, the proprietor of a restaurant called (to his disgust) Sloppy Louie's; "The Rats on the Waterfront," which has inspired countless writers to attempt portraits of these most demonized New Yorkers; and "Mr. Hunter's Grave," widely considered to be the finest single piece of nonfiction to have ever appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. Here is the essential work of a legendary writer.
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Publisher | : Crown Pub |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030772056X |
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Traces the lesser-known story of a volunteer fireman, marine engineer and poker buddy of Mark Twain who inspired the character of Tom Sawyer, describing his pivotal contributions to the hunt for a serial arsonist in 1850s San Francisco. 30,000 first printing.