The Lost And Found Journal Of A Miner 49er

A lost journal from the Gold Rush era reveals scattered treasures from sea to shining sea (and deep beneath them as well). Legends tell of explorers who harnessed ship and beast and rail to lay hold their dreams on a merciless frontier. One man lived long enough to record the greatest history never told... until now. Join the rush!

In 2017, Jack Dublin released the first volume of Christian-themed folklore in The Lost and Found Journal series. Now, the Miner 49er returns in Vol. 2, revealing a past that may force historians to rewrite their books! Brace yourself for adventures stretching from the Sea of Job to a vast world beneath the American continent where life is familiar but nothing is what it seems. Meet Dino Garosello, a carnival barker bound to a ghost town with a terrible secret; and Jason Kittridge, a bandit so ruthless his name was blotted out of every history book. Is it truth stranger than fiction, or fiction stranger than truth? You decide on this epic quest!

A lost journal from the Gold Rush era reveals scattered treasures from sea to shining sea (and deep beneath them as well). Legends tell of explorers who harnessed ship and beast and rail to lay hold their dreams on a merciless frontier. One man lived long enough to record the greatest history never told... until now. Join the rush!

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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.