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Hard-Rock Miners. The Intermountain West, 1860-1920
RONALD C. BROWN
Other works by RONALD C. BROWNPublication: Texas A & M University Press, 1979, College Station and London
First edition. 8vo. Tan cloth, titles stamped in brown on the spine, xiv [2], 201 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated from photographs, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. An impressive list of bibliographical sources. After the colorful western prospectors had made their strikes and moved on, they left behind them another, lesser known breed of men, the hard-rock miners. The author provides the first thorough study of the daily lives and work of hard-rock miners of Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada in the period of 1860 to 1920. Fine in dust jacket.
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