Gift for Lee Pace (lee_pace)

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A festively wrapped box containing these smaller, individually wrapped gifts:

Two books, one on American ghost towns* and one detailing the social aspects of gold camp society during the California Gold Rush**; regional treats from southeastern U.S. (a box of Goo Goo Clusters candy) and the southwest (Prickly Pear Cactus jelly and candy); and two paperweights - one a piece of wood-turned-to-quartzite-and-stone from the Petrified Forest in Arizona and one containing a gold nugget from California.




*Ghost Towns of the Mountain West

The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. Maps, historical background, and stunning color photographs bring to life dozens of ghost towns and provide practical information for exploring this fascinating chapter of American history.

**Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush

Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film―of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold―is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity―ethnic, national, and sexual―were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish. Maps, illustrations.