Published now under the Swallow Press imprint, this is a reprint of the Sage Books edition originally published in 1977. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This book includes the story of 240 of Colorado’s mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. The men who swarmed to the mountains to find precious metal came in successive waves from the late 1850
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
