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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is the big book that many of us in the West have been praying for the volume tips the scales at three pounds, Troy weight, not a grain of which is wasted." New York Herald Tribune "Warmly recommended to all libraries as good popular history and useful reference work." Clarence Gorchels, Library Journal "With its more than 100 drawings, 14 sketch maps, a glossary and good index, this is a book for all those who find, as the author does, an inexhaustible fund of romantic interest in the story of the search for hidden mineral riches—the search that, though it enriched only the few, accomplished the opening up of America's western frontier." Chicago Sunday Tribune "THE BONANZA TRAIL is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West for which so many students and amateurs of Western Americana have been waiting. Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas . . . . A book that, to the informed intelligence, is almost impossible to put down." LUCIUS BEEBE in The Territorial Enterprise.
With its more than 100 drawings, 14 sketch maps . . . this is a book for all those who find, as the author does, an inexhaustible fund of romantic interest in the story of the search for hidden mineral riches—the search that, though it enriched only the few, accomplished the opening up of America's western frontier.
* Chicago Sunday Tribune *
This is the big book that many of us in the West have been praying for . . . the volume tips the scales at three pounds, Troy weight, not a grain of which is wasted.
* New York Herald Tribune *
Warmly recommended to all libraries as good popular history and useful reference work.
* Library Journal *
The Bonanza Trail is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West . . . Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories, and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas . . .
* The Territorial Enterprise *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: The Bonanza Trail
1. New Mexico: Indian Turquoise and Spanish Gold
2. Arizona: Desert Mines in Cactus Hills
3. California: Mother Lode and Mohave Desert
4. Wyoming: Copper and Gold in the Sagebrush
5. Montana: From Alder Gulch to Anaconda Copper
6. Idaho: From Boise Basin to the Coeur d'Alenes
7. Washington: Chief Moses Held the Key
8. Oregon: Strikes beyond the Siskiyous
9. Nevada: Raw Camps in Barren Hills
10. Utah: The Army Turns Prospector
11. Colorado: Stampede to Timberline
12. South Dakota: Indian Menace in the Black Hills
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
