Mining Frontiers Of The Far West, 1848-1880.

RODMAN W. PAUL

Publication: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, New York

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone decorated cloth, maps on endpapers, xix, [blank], 236 pp., foreword, preface, illustrated, maps, footnotes, a note on statistics, bibliography, index. Covers the mining booms from Pike's Peak to Sutter's Mill. "A highly satisfactory history of mining, which dwells not only on the ups and downs of those who 'struck it rich' but also treats those who contributed to the advancement of mining by their inventive genius. Nor is the general population disregarded. Its cosmopolitan nature and varied occupations are recorded, and comparisons between different localities and different periods are frequently made with a great deal of insight and aptitude." The men, the events, the times, and the towns, all vividly described. Fine in dust jacket.

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