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|  | | Cocos Island Treasure
Popular Cocos Island was the historic choice for 18th pirates burying their treasures. Is this the secret pirate map which will lead to their discovery?
Where did those rasty, barbaric theft-driven pirates bury their treasures in the 17th and 18th Centuries? Perhaps just a little south of the main South Sea shipping lane in a secluded harbor where a short paddle through shark-infested waters to the steamy, fetid jungle island could yield fresh water, food, and gold! Turn-of-the-20th Century fortune hunters from the schooner, Bessie, hunt where only ghosts inhabit--or are they all merely apparitions? Captain Dan was ready to retire until he gained access to a secret cipher--one that he felt sure was authentic enough to reap him millions and wil | |  | | Hot Air Promotions
Gold and silver mines were being discovered everywhere in the American West. Back in the late 20's/early 30's the SF Mining Exchange was doing a land office business. Buy, buy, buy those mining stock investments!
"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"
Gold and silver mines were being discovered and touted every day as well as this country's fledgling oil interests. The west was being heavily mined and there were numerous opportunities to place hard-earned dollars into mining and oil stocks in the hopes of reaping many thousands in return.
Back then you couldn't help but win big! Right? Get in on the ground floor and follow along with Stanley as he naively finagles his investment strategy!
| |  | | Lucky Joe
Joe was a stowaway like myself and a couple years younger when we left Brummagen, England, for the New World. Getting shanghaied on a whaler was NOT in our plans to hunt for gold!
I met Lucky Joe when I stowed away aboard the Elginshire out of Birmingham, England, in 1901. Joe felt that all his luck came from divine intervention for which he was most grateful and quick to give the glory--and testament. We were both bound for San Francisco, where it was rumored the streets were paved with gold. Shanghaied off the wharf of San Francisco aboard a whaler, however, almost proved to be our undoing and the end of the adventure. Did we make it back to land to search the California hills for gold? | |  | | Sons of the Sea-A Tale of the Old Grimsby Fishermen
Written in 1929, "Sons of the Sea" describes sailing on early 1900 schooners, exotic sea ports from England to Africa, and dastardly pirates enslaving the fair maiden!
Death was always a ships mate as Captain Beasley set sail for easy fishing in the North Sea. The chance of a fatality was 14 times greater than that of a coal miner at the start of the 20th century. Could the sea be a mistress that he could not forget? Gladly, this Yankee would give it all up for the Belle of Grimsby. However, she has many admirers, including Sir Henry Draker and the adoring fans of the stage. He would give up the sea and become a farmer if she would only be his. Shipping out to forget her, however, backfires when he discovers the unwilling passengers aboard and their true des |
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