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1 online resource (500 pages) |
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: The Bonanza Trail; 1. New Mexico: Indian Turquoise and Spanish Gold; Socorro; Kelly; Old Placers (Dolores); New Placers (Golden); San Pedro; Elizabethtown; White Oaks; Organ; Gold Dust; Hillsboro; Kingston; Silver City; Mogollon; 2. Arizona: Desert Mines in Cactus Hills; Tubac; Yuma; Gila City and La Paz; Ehrenberg; Quartzsite; Wickenburg (The Vulture Mine); Rich Hill District (Octave); Weaver; Stanton; Gold Road; Oatman; White Hills; Superior; Silver King and Pinal; Globe; McMillanville |
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TombstoneContention City and Charleston; Jerome; 3. California: Mother Lode and Mohave Desert; Auburn; Grass Valley; Nevada City; North San Juan; Rough and Ready; Coloma; Placerville; El Dorado to Jackson; Volcano; Jackson to Sonora; Columbia; Sonora to Coulterville; Bodie; Panamint City; Calico; 4. Wyoming: Copper and Gold in the Sagebrush; Centennial and Platinum City; Gold Hill; Encampment; Battle; Rambler; Dillon; South Pass; South Pass City; Atlantic City; Minersâ#x80;#x99; Delight; 5. Montana: From Alder Gulch to Anaconda Copper; Bannack; Alder Gulch (Nevada City); Virginia City; Pony |
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Diamond CityLast Chance Gulch (Helena); Marysville; Wickes; Elkhorn; Basin; Butte; Georgetown and Southern Cross; Granite; Gold Creek; Beartown; Garnet; 6. Idaho: From Boise Basin to the Coeur dâ#x80;#x99;Alenes; Spalding; Pierce (City) and Oro Fino; Elk City; Florence; Leesburg; Pioneerville; Idaho City; Centerville; Placerville; Boonville and Ruby City; Silver City; De Lamar; Dewey; Wallace; Gem; Burke; Eagle City; Murray; Kellogg and Wardner; 7. Washington: Chief Moses Held the Key; Fort Colvile; Colville; Kettle Falls, Daisy, and Marcus; Bossburg; Northport; Orient and Laurier; Republic |
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Okanogan City, Chopaka CityOroville; Ruby; Conconully; Blewett and the Peshastin Mines; The Swauk and Liberty; Sultan; Gold Bar; Index; Galena and Mineral City; Monte Cristo; 8. Oregon: Strikes Beyond the Siskiyous; Sailorsâ#x80;#x99; Diggings (Waldo); Allentown; Browntown; Grass Flat; Frenchtown Bar; Kerby; Gold Hill; Jacksonville; Auburn; Sumpter; Cornucopia; Homestead; Sparta; 9. Nevada: Raw Camps in Barren Hills; Virginia City; Gold Hill and Silver City; Austin; Aurora; Tonopah; Goldfield; Rhyolite and Bullfrog; Searchlight; Eldorado Canyon and Nelson; 10. Utah: The Army Turns Prospector |
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Bingham CanyonAlta; Stockton; Ophir; Mercur; The Tintic District; Silver City; Mammoth; Eureka; Knightsville; Silver Reef; Park City; 11. Colorado: Stampede to Timberline; Central City; Central City to Silver Plume; Silver Plume; Breckenridge; Lincoln City; Fairplay; Chalk Creek Canyon; Alpine; St. Elmo; Romley; Hancock; Creede; Sherman; Whitecross; Silverton; Cunningham Gulch; Eureka; Animas Forks; Victor; 12. South Dakota: Indian Menace in the Black Hills; Custer; Hill City; Rockerville; Keystone; Sheridan; Pactola; Silver City; Rochford; Roubaix; Galena; Crook City; Gayville; Central City |
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Searching for gold in the American West was not for the faint of heart. To reach the fabled gold fields of California, prospectors penetrated the boundless high Sierras and the Rockies and crossed the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Waves of would-be miners poured into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, while others climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Along the way, they made their homes and earned a living in makeshift camps and towns, many of which have since vanished. Written back when old-timers still recalled the glorious ordeal of the Old West and many ruins still stood, The Bonanza Trail endures as a classic of western storytelling. Muriel Sibell Wolle traveled 20,000 miles across 12 western states in search of the legendary mining camps and towns where adventure could happen on a dime and dreams of instant fortune filled the days. The risky but always exciting life in those bustling frontier settlements is memorably captured by Wolle in vivid detail and her extraordinary drawings and paintings |
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Cities and towns -- West (U.S.)
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Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
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Mineral industries -- West (U.S.)
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Cities and towns
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Mineral industries
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Mines and mineral resources
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West (U.S.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146140
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West United States
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Electronic book
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9780253033314 |
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0253033314 |
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9780253033284 |
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0253033284 |
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