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Poor Man's Fortune

Jarod Roll · 2020

156,120 words · about 10 h 56 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Roll, Jarod (2020), Poor Man's Fortune, The University of North Carolina Press - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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Author
Jarod Roll
Language
English
Published
2020
Length
156,120 words · about 10 h 56 min
Sections
10 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (10)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 1 min
  3. Introduction about 7 h 30 min
  4. Epilogue about 38 min
  5. Chapter 1 about 7 min
  6. Chapter 2 about 6 min
  7. Chapter 3 about 7 min
  8. Chapter 4 about 10 min
  9. Chapter 5 about 30 min
  10. Chapter 7 about 1 h 47 min
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Front matter

JAROD ROLL

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Contents

Introduction 1 1. Finding’s Keeping 19 2. The Favorite of Fortune 46 3. Nothing but His Labor 69 4. The Joplin Man Simply Takes His Chances 98 5. The American Boy Has Held His Own 128 6. Red-Blooded, Rugged Individuals 165 7. Back to Work 200 Epilogue 243 Acknowledgments 259 Notes 263 Bibliography 301

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS 1. Midwestern lead and zinc fields 23

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