<p>Discovery of gold at Aurora opened the way to settlement of Nevada Territory. It proved there were precious minerals in locales beyond the rich Comstock Lode.Aurora was full of life during the Civil War years.  Its streets teemed with hardy miners, millhands, merchants and barkeepers, stock hustlers and gunmen.  Women coped with hardship and loneliness in this isolated location.</p>

Aurora: Ghost city of the dawn

Stewart, Robert E

Nevada Publications

Birds of Maryland and District of Columbia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Birds of Maryland and District of Columbia Birdlife is never static. Changes are constantly taking place, not only in the total number Of individuals of a species, but in their distribution as well. Being winged creatures, capable Of easy movement from place to place, and having definite environ mental requirements, birds are very sensitive to habitat changes. It is hard to visualize all of the changes that have taken place since Audubon's time, scarcely a hundred years ago. Clearing, cutting, and burning Of forests, cultivating Of 'open land, elimina tion Of hedgerows, draining and filling Of marshes, pollution of streams and estuaries, ooding Of stream valleys to form reser voirs, and introduction of foreign birds - all of these practices have caused drastic changes in the distribution and abundance of many species. Three species that have been recorded in Mary land are now extinct, and several others have been extirpated from much Of their original range. Equally important, though perhaps less noticeable, have been the many pronounced local changes in abundance of more common species. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Birds of Maryland and District of Columbia (Classic Reprint)