
The Knights of the Golden Circle: The History and Legacy of One of 19th Century America's Most Notorious Secret Societies, Paperback/Charles River Editors
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Vezi oferta la elefant.ro*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the society *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "This country without slave labor would be completely worthless. We can only live and exist by that species of labor; and hence I am willing to fight for the last." - William Nugent, letter addressed to Eleanor Nugent, September 7, 1863 In 1934, a pair of teenagers from Baltimore by the names of Theodore Jones and Henry Grob embarked on what they thought would be another lazy summer afternoon. They popped in at the soda shop and idly browsed through the aisles of few local mom-and-pop stores, but when they could not kill their boredom, they decided to return to Grob's place for an impromptu treasure hunt. Clunky metal detectors in hand, they roamed around the backyard, discovering and delighting in odd metal knickknacks along the way. What started out as just another slow-moving summer's day turned out to be anything but when one of the detectors began to go off. Intrigued, the pair grabbed a spade each and shoveled like their lives depended on it. What they found was none other than a rusted pot of 5,000 glittering gold coins, with the mysterious words "Great Seal of the K'S of the G.C." stamped onto the edges of each token. What ensued was a bitter dispute over the ownership of said coins, one that is still raging on via the parties' descendants to this day. But who were these "K's," and why was this treasure so coveted? As it turned out, the b











