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The Gold Seekers: Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California
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The Gold Seekers: Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California

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This is the first book to tie together the earlier gold rush in the Carolinas and Georgia with the well-known California gold rush of 1849. It presents a history of the Southern gold rush and the legends that have grown up around it. Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the U.S. Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California and Colorado, including how the Virginia, Carolina and Georgia gold miners abandoned their mines within weeks after news arrived of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Creek. And, for a while, they were said to be the only experienced miners in the Western gold fields.

Ms. Roberts recreates with gusto and suspense the experiences of real people—the adventurers and entrepreneurs, family men and rascals, immigrants and bandits, entertainers and miners—and also includes several tales of the supernatural from that period.
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Release dateJun 12, 2013
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The Gold Seekers: Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California
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Nancy Roberts

Nancy Roberts is a multi-award-winning freelance Arabic-to-English translator and editor. In addition to novels, she enjoys translating materials on political, economic and environmental issues, human rights, international development, Islamic thought and movements, and interreligious dialogue. Nancy lived across the Middle East for twenty-five years in Lebanon, Kuwait and Jordan, and is now based in the Chicago suburbs.

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    I enjoyed this book. Each chapter is just a few pages, perfect for dipping in for a moment or so. Some tales I had heard, but others were totally new to me. Contents:The Ghost Comes for Blackbeard, OcracokeThe General's Ghost, For FisherThe Whaler's Return, Shackleford BanksThe Unearthly Music of Roan MountainLifesaver of the Outer BanksThe Lovely Apparition, near High PointRun of the Ghost Train, WarsawThe Mysterious Hoofprints at BathThe Fairy Cross, western North Carolina mountainsMusic by the Ghost Organ, KadeshBummer's End, SmithfieldThe Little Red Man, Old SalemThe Thing at the Bridge, SmithfieldDevil's Tramping Ground, Siler CityThe Light at Maco Station, WilmingtonDromgoole, Chapel HillGhost of the Old Mine, Gold HillThe Battle of the Dead, BentonvilleThe Ghost on the Stairs, FayettevilleThis book is well worth reading if you like gentle horror or ghost stories. Nothing is too scary and all are well told. If you enjoy paranormal stories or North Carolina legends and history, then I think you would enjoy this book.