Bonanza Trail (eBook)

Ghost Trails and Mining Camps of the West

Muriel Sibell Wolle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
527 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03331-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This classic account of Old West mining camps and gold-hunting prospectors is “a successful digging of a rich historical vein . . . phenomenal” (The New York Times). This colorful blend of history, reference, and travelogue brings to life the frenzied search for precious metals in nineteenth-century America through a tour of mining camps and former boomtowns, many now abandoned. It reveals the unbelievable privations men endured in the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the hostile Black Hills of South Dakota. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Wolle stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust, and struggle, and recreates the excitement of the period. A gifted artist, she also includes maps and “more than a hundred poignant sketches conveying the loneliness, melancholy and crumbling dryness of ghost cities which throbbed once with the hopes of many people” (The New York Times).“The fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West.” —Lucius Beebe, The Territorial Enterprise“Good popular history and [a] useful reference work.” —Library Journal

Autor

lt;P>Muriel Sibell Wolle (1898-1977), a renowned painter and drawer of western mining communities, was Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her books include Stampede to Timberline and Montana Pay Dirt.

Inhalt

Contents
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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2018
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Gold • Mining • West • west, mining, gold
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03331-4 / 0253033314
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03331-4 / 9780253033314