Name: Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues (en Inglés)
SKU: 51909185
Price: 29960.00 CLP
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Author: Noy, Gary ; Margolin, Malcolm
ISBN: 9781597142656

portada Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues (en Inglés)

Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Gary Noy

Prefacio de

Malcolm Margolin

Editorial

Heyday Books

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.3x14x1.8 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781597142656

N° edición

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Historia de américa
Historia local

Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues (en Inglés)

Gary Noy (Autor) · Malcolm Margolin (Prefacio de) · Heyday Books · Tapa Blanda

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The Sierra Nevada, with its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that they have to be real. Could the human imagination have invented someone like Eliza Gilbert? Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, she transformed herself into Lola Montez, born in Seville, Spain, in 1823, and brought to the Gold Country the provocative "Spider Dance"--impersonating a young woman repelling a legion of angry spiders under her petticoats. Or Otto Esche, who in 1860 imported fifteen two-humped Bactrian camels from Asia to transport goods to the mines. Or the artist Albert Bierstadt, whose paintings Mark Twain characterized as having "more the atmosphere of Kingdom-Come than of California." Or multimillionaire George Whittell Jr., who was frequently spotted driving around Lake Tahoe in a luxurious convertible with his pet lion in the front seat. These, and scores more, spill out of the pages of this well-illustrated and lively tribute to the Sierra by a native son.