Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Early Snake River Boom; 2 The Black Sands Craze; 3 The Burroughs Brothers; 4 Pierce; 5 Florence; 6 Elk City and Newsome; 7 Stanley Basin and Yankee Fork; 8 Salmon City and Leesburg; 9 South and Middle Forks of the Boise River; 10 The Yukon Dredge; 11 Warren; 12 Boise Basin; 13 Dredging Rare Metals; 14 Other Dredge Grounds and Snake-Salmon Rivers; 15 The Struggle for Dredge Control; 16 Aftermath: The Cleanup; 17 Overview; Epilogue; Brief Bibliographic Essay; Index