This except is from Chapter 14 of SLAG & THE GOLDEN AGE OF LEAD-SILVER ORE and covers my great great grandfather Anton Eilers’ transition from his role as Deputy Commissioner of Mines and Mining Statistics in and West of the Rocky Mountains (under Rossiter Raymond) to Chief Engineer of the Saints John Smelter in 1976, before he[…]
SLAG & The Golden Age of Lead-Silver Ore ORDER IT TODAY FROM AMAZON Today, most Americans know mining and smelting for its remnants: ghost towns, crumbling smelting works, and a half million abandoned mines. Many tourists visit old mining towns in the West and leave thinking it is a yesteryear industry, but with modern homes,[…]
Targeted for abduction, forty-year-old Peen Rogers’ morning routine is turned upside down, forcing him to evade international criminals hunting a mysterious art treasure. Peen bands together with quick-witted Tora Armstrong, a history doctoral student who’s desperately searching for Peen’s uncle, Professor Edmund Rogers. Thwarting their efforts are Damon Kant, a ruthless man who will kill[…]
Finding Virginia follows David’s search to regain solid ground after being hit by the same economic woes that have shaken America’s middle class — the dot.com bust, real estate crash, college debt — problems suddenly compounded by his father’s failing health during the summer of 2011. A true story, his journey takes an unlikely and[…]