[PDF] Robbing The Pillars eBook

Author : Michael Garrigan
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2023-08-14
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ISBN : 9781956368680

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The headwaters of Robbing the Pillars begin deep in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania and wind their way through mountain tributaries before reaching the Susquehanna River. These poems venture out west through smeared Nebraskan skies, up wild Washington waters, and into the Siskiyou Mountains as meteors split the sky on fire. They traverse the wet woods of Maine along the West Branch of the Penobscot River. They hike the Appalachian, Continental Divide, and Pacific Crest Trails. In the early coal mines of Pennsylvania, miners crawled into the deepest parts of the mines, set dynamite, and blew joists holding up walls in hopes of getting the last valuable rock before the mountain collapsed-robbing the pillars. The poems in Robbing the Pillars are the dynamite, the pillars, the rock, the mountain, and the miners. They embrace terrains familiar and forgotten-those which have been stripped and left to become wild again.

Author : Michael Garrigan
Publisher : Little Bound Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781947003842

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The headwaters of Robbing the Pillars begin deep in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania and wind their way through mountain tributaries before reaching the Susquehanna River. These poems venture out west through smeared Nebraskan skies, up wild Washington waters, and into the Siskiyou Mountains as meteors split the sky on fire. They traverse the wet woods of Maine along the West Branch of the Penobscot River to the peak of Katahdin. They hike the Appalachian, Continental Divide, and Pacific Crest Trails. In the early coal mines of Pennsylvania, miners crawled into the deepest parts of the mines, set dynamite, and blew joists holding up walls in hopes of getting the last valuable rock before the mountain collapsed -- robbing the pillars. The poems in Robbing the Pillars are the dynamite, the pillars, the rock, the mountain, and the miners. They embrace terrains familiar and forgotten -- those which have been stripped and left to become wild again. They explore the physical (geological, riverine), familial, personal, and cultural landscapes of our world as we rob its pillars.

Author : Mike Breslin
Publisher : Sunbury Press, Incorporated
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934597309

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...From the moment I spotted him I stood at the porch railing rigid as a statue, breathing though my nose so the vapor of my breath in the cool night air wouldn't give me away. Breathing through the nose was one of the things I remembered from my Army days playing a deadly game of hide-and-seek with the German infantry. Who was he? And what was he up to? Mike Breslin's town of Creedonton is about as tough as they come. Set in the 1950's and 1970's, this tale of life in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, during its rapid decline following World War II, captures the essence of the region, Black Lung and all. Robbing the Pillars is a tale of rich and poor, and the incredible power wealth can wield in a small town. It is a tale of revenge and of injustice, following the Job- like odyssey of a coal miner's son, Jack Dugan, as he attempts to overcome every misfortune in his path. Will old man Creedon continue to get his way? Or, will Jack Dugan finally avenge his father and the decades of greed? Robbing the Pillars is Coal Region fiction at its finest.

Author : Kalen Vaughan Johnson
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781432847517

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James MacLaren, a fugitive from Scotland, embarks on a new life in California, escaping his secrets but not his hatred for the upper class. He is a man always on his guard, leery of the entitled and wary of his own temper. While raising a beautiful, headstrong daughter, and denying his love for a woman he cannot have, he champions miners in their fight against the Coleridge Sierra speculators seeking to maneuver a mining industry monopoly. San Francisco s Judge Dandridge sees himself as a man of vision. But when retributions fail in his courtroom, reparations are administered in the back rooms of vigilante justice. His venal and mercenary machinations tie him to the powerful Sam Brannan, the Chinese Tong and a shadowy control of the governorship of California.

Author : Kalen Vaughan Johnson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2017
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781432832957

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"Gold Rush California's notorious "Legislature of a Thousand Drinks" launches a secret consortium of frontier barons, triggering the collapse of independent mines throughout Sierra Nevada. James MacLaren, a fugitive from Scotland, embarks on a new life in California, escaping his secrets but not his hatred for the upper class. He is a man always on his guard, leery of the entitled and wary of his own temper. While raising a beautiful, headstrong daughter, and denying his love for a woman he cannot have, he champions miners in their fight against the Coleridge Sierra speculators seeking to maneuver a mining industry monopoly. San Francisco's Judge Dandridge sees himself as a man of vision. But when retributions fail in his courtroom, reparations are administered in the back rooms of vigilante justice. His venal and mercenary machinations tie him to the powerful Sam Brannan, the Chinese Tong and a shadowy control of the governorship of California. Robbing the Pillars is a story of the working class fighting for legitimacy against a legacy of gold and all it seduces -- a tale of hidden pasts, love and betrayal, and the fulfillment of dreams against incredible odds. Robbing the Pillars is the first book in The Empire Barons series") --