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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...
2) The rancher
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Searching for her place in her birth family, engineer Rachel Ford Morgan goes up against her family's rival, Cauy Lymond, when she discovers worrisome fault lines around an abandoned silver mine on his property, which threatens all their futures.
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xii, 420 pages : illustrations, tables, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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"In this painstakingly researched study David Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico's silver mining towns. His narrative paints a vivid portrait of their struggles to retain their identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. Most studies of 16th-century Mexican crypto-Jews have focused on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but...
6) Leaden skies
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It is 1880 and the railroad is coming to town. Former President Ulysses S. Grant arrives along with the train to celebrate the event and look into possible investments. Inez is dealing with the problem of her missing husband while trying to maintain ownership of the saloon. She makes a backroom deal with the local madam, Frisco Flo, hoping to gain some money of her own. When the body of one of Flo?s girls turns up, mud starts flying, accompanied in...
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201 pages : map ; 19 cm.
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"Just when Dylan Maples is settling down after last summer's trip to Ireland's Eye, the parental units are at it again--planning another family adventure. Only this time, it's not a summer vacation, but an extended trip way up north to Cobalt, Ontario, in the middle of a bitter winter. Once a thriving silver mining community, all that's left of the town's rich history are the long abandoned mines. A Toronto millionaire has hired Dylan's dad to retrieve...
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vi, 178 pages ; 23 cm
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Arizona's history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines, buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedly cursed Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Gold and silver bars discovered in Huachuca Canyon by a soldier stationed at nearby Fort Huachuca just before World War II remain inaccessible despite years...
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"Autumn, 1880, in the Rocky Mountains brings frost, snow, and the return of Inez Stannert to Leadville, Colorado, where she is one of three partners in the Silver Queen Saloon. Her undisputed reign is going to be challenged by her roving husband, Mark, who returns with her. The third owner, African-American Abe Jackson, is defiitely worried about harnessing this volatile pair to the business, especially as Mark seems bent on wooing back his wife."--...
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1 videodisc (approximately 124 min., approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Por Mis Pistolas: Fidencio Barrenillo is on his way to Arizona in order to claim his late great-grandfather's deed for a silver mine. However, he finds himself caught up in a series of dangerous and comedic adventures while battling Apaches and vicious gunmen who have their eyes on Fidencio's silver. A clever satire of the "Spaghetti Westerns" of the 1960s, POR MIS PISTOLAS is an entertaining film filled with action and comedy. -- Fidencio Barrenillo...
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"This wacky true tale of American ingenuity all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked -- losing all but the mansion -- she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could...
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ix, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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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.
"The rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada's Comstock Lode, the rich body of gold and silver so immensely...
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