"The Next Bend in the River - Maine Mining Adventures" tells those who enjoy the outdoors how and where to find gold in Maine. There are instructions how to pan and sluice, tips on dredging and dowsing, and a list of the better streams and locations where gold can be traced. Also, we are told about the mining boom and bust in the late eighteen hundreds, along with the colorful hoaxes and their flamboyan creators.
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Stevens captures the drama with a polished and perceptive writing style. the result is a window of the world of mining in Maine -- Maine Times, September 5, 1989
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This book beckons to the adventurer in each of us. For those who live in Maine, or who spend time there, it is a fascinating read, and will likely lure the reader to the nearest river - or better yet, to one of the many promising rivers the author tells about.
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a must for beginners gold panning in Maine.,
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C. J. Stevens tells it like it is, very informative and historic. if you can't go right out and find gold here in Maine after reading this book than you never will find any gold. This book is a must read for my entire family before I will take them panning with me.
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Terrific book with LOTS of information. A Gold-Miner's Bible.,
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Seldom does a book contain both useful information and intriguing true stories on prospecting - this is a learning experience as well as an entertaining one.
There are simple and easy-to-follow instructions on how to hunt and pan for gold, and a list of the streams and rivers where gold has been found. Prospectors are a widely diverging group: they include eccentrics and every-day people, all equally caught up in that adventure of the search for gold. Many of them are generous as they share their prospecting secrets. After closing the covers I looked sadly out at the snow. I wanted to pack my gear and go gold-hunting right away! That is how the book affected me. But time goes fast, and soon it will be warm enough to swirl a pan. I can warmly recommend this book for all who love adventure.
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This book is a great read, especially if you are at all familiar with Maine and its' people. Very informative if you are interested in panning or sluicing for gold, honest, direct, and woven with great stories of real people. I loved it!
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"Would you like to see a nugget from the state of Marine?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sizeable nuggets, mineral shop, gold hunting, gold pan, gold hunters, old railroad bed, getting gold Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Branch, Swift River, Carl Shilling, Gold Brook, George Mattor, Main Branch, Coos Canyon, Perley Whitney, Bill Garrett, Martin Keith, Sandy River, Adam Galuza, Helen Barker, Kenneth Knapp, New York, Stanley Voter, Blue Hill, Nile Brook, New England, New Hampshire, West Branch, Charlie Damery, Clarence Young, Indian Joe, Bateman's Lane New!
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"Would you like to see a nugget from the state of Marine?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sizeable nuggets, mineral shop, gold hunting, gold pan, gold hunters, old railroad bed, getting gold Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Branch, Swift River, Carl Shilling, Gold Brook, George Mattor, Main Branch, Coos Canyon, Perley Whitney, Bill Garrett, Martin Keith, Sandy River, Adam Galuza, Helen Barker, Kenneth Knapp, New York, Stanley Voter, Blue Hill, Nile Brook, New England, New Hampshire, West Branch, Charlie Damery, Clarence Young, Indian Joe, Bateman's Lane New!
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- The Buried Treasures of Maine by C. J. Stevens in Front Matter, page 171, and Back Matter
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- Maine Mining Adventures by C. J. Stevens in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Supernatural Side of Maine by C. J. Stevens in Front Matter
- Storyteller : A Life of Erskine Caldwell by C. J. Stevens in Front Matter
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