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Portrait of a Prospector
Edward “Ed” Schieffelin (1847–1897) was the epitome of the American frontiersman. A former Indian scout, he discovered what would become known as the legendary Tombstone, Arizona, silver lode in 1877. His search for wealth followed a path well-trod by thousands who journeyed west in the mid to late nineteenth century to try their luck in mining country. But unlike typical prospectors who spent decades futilely panning for gold, Schieffelin led an epic life of wealth and adventure. In Portrait of a Prospector, historian R. Bruce Craig pieces together the colorful memoirs and oral histories of this singular individual to tell Schieffelin’s story in his own words. Craig places the prosp...
Ed the Gold Prospector
Join Ed as he heads to the Wild West of Victor, Colorado, on a grand adventure to seek his fortune, managing to strike pure gold along the way. Ed the Gold Prospector is a picture book biography based on the life of Edward Harvey Newland and his wife, Henriet Stecher Newland. Ed and Henriet spent a decade in Victor, Colorado during the gold rush in the late 1800s. Learn about the ups and downs of living in the Wild West during this time, including a devastating fire, a visit from the Vice President, Teddy Roosevelt, and a shootout during a miner's strike. This is the fourth book in the Ancestor Adventure Series. Each book celebrates the adventurous spirit of one of our ancestors, whose courage and bravery helped them forge a better life for themselves and future generations. Whatever dreams they chased and hardships they encountered, the stories of our ancestors are full of excitement and life lessons. May they inspire you to take your own grand adventure.
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An Unnatural Order
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason's An Unnatural Order has become a classic. Now in a new Lantern edition, the book explores, from an anthropological, sociocultural, and holistic perspective, how and why we have cut ourselves off from other animals and the natural world, and the toll this has taken on our consciousness, our ability to steward nature wisely, and the will to control our own tendencies. Jim Mason writes: "My own view is that the primal worldview, updated by a scientific understanding of the living world, offers the best hope for a human spirituality. Life on earth is the miracle, the sacred. The dynamic living world is the crea...
