Pay Dirt: Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Alaska Gold Miner

Pay Dirt: Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Alaska Gold Miner
ISBN-10
0945397682
ISBN-13
9780945397687
Series
Pay Dirt
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
159
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Epicenter Press (WA)
Authors
Otis Hahn, Alice Vollmar

Description

The absorbing story of a fifty-year-old Minnesota farmer who turned over his farm to one of his sons, and headed north to Alaska to mine for gold. The revealing story of how a man with the courage to follow his dream found both gold and unexpected adventure and adversity in Interior Alaska, while learning that human nature can be the most unpredictable force of all.

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Other editions

Similar books

  • Pay Dirt
    Pay Dirt
    By Richard Herzog

    "Raised in the 'City that Care Forgot,' and in an environment which taught less than it cared, Richard spent his formative years helping and supporting others--friends, neighbors, and an English teacher.

  • Pay Dirt Road: A Novel
    Pay Dirt Road: A Novel
    By Samantha Jayne Allen

    Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas.

  • Pay Dirt, Or, Adventures at Ash Lawn
    Pay Dirt, Or, Adventures at Ash Lawn
    By Rita Mae Brown

    Crozet, Virginia, postmistress and town gossip Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen gets help from her nosy tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, in solving the strange case of a murdered Hell's Angel and a rampant computer virus

  • Pay Dirt by
    Pay Dirt by
    By J.R. Roberts

    MYSTERY OF THE MONEY After discovering an extra thousand dollars in his bank account, Clint Adams receives instructions to go to the one-horse town of Bended Knee, Arkansas.

  • Pay Dirt: A Panorama of American Gold Rushes
    Pay Dirt: A Panorama of American Gold Rushes
    By Glenn Chesney Quiett

    This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.

  • Pay Dirt
    Pay Dirt
    By Erle Stanley Gardner

    Death in the desert is a grimmer thing than elsewhere—but in all ways the desert is a grim school for men, as Pete and his partner knew only too well. A classic western by the creator of Perry Mason.

  • Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
    Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
    By David R. Montgomery

    Man and the Earth. New York: Fox, Duffield. Swift, J. 1977. Sahelian pastoralists: Underdevelopment, desertification, and famine. Annual Review of Anthropology 6:457-78. Syvitski, J. P. M., C. J. Vörösmarty, A. J. Kettner, and P. Green.

  • Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts
    Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts
    By J. I. Rodale

    This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.

  • Montana Pay Dirt: A Guide to the Mining Camps of the Treasure State
    Montana Pay Dirt: A Guide to the Mining Camps of the Treasure State
    By Muriel Sibell Wolle

    A reprint--on acidic paper, alas--of the Swallow Press edition of 1963.

  • Pay Dirt
    Pay Dirt
    By Darren K. Proulx

    Pay Dirt