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Name: Eilene Lyon - Fortune's Frenzy- Eilene Lyon (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.15 MB

Title: Fortune's Frenzy
Author: Eilene Lyon
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Publisher: TwoDot
ISBN: 9781493070060
Total pages: 272 str.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...and gold dust.
When Henry Jenkins's sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible.
As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry's creditors. When Henry's sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their...