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Matthew P. Mayo
Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers [PDF ebook]
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting

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Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780762789528 ● Publisher TwoDot ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5512842 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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