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Treasure from the Painted Hills - A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907 (Hardcover, New)
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Treasure from the Painted Hills - A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907 (Hardcover, New)
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Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today as a
silver-mining ghost town, Calico, CA outlived the silver era when
borax was discovered in its hills. Supplying Borax
worldwide-employing the twenty mule teams still associated with
Twenty-Mule Team Borax-the Calico mines played a pivotal role in
the evolution of the less glamorous industry, borax mining.
Correcting the image sold to tourists, Steeples provides a tight
geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of
Calico, a once thriving community struggling to survive in
primitive conditions. He tells the tale of three Calicos: the
silver-mining town, the borax-mining center, and the ghost town,
providing a masterful history of regional silver mining and
national borax mining, processing, and marketing. The book provides
an essential chapter in the development of western mining, the
borax industry, and western mining camps. But it is more than the
story of silver and borax in Calico. Steeples probes beyond the
mines and mills in search of the community's soul, considering, for
instance, the local paper, the Calico Print, the creation of the
twenty-mule team image of Borax, the entrepreneurship of Francis
Marion Borax Smith and his multinational organization, the
education of the children, and the creation of the modern-day myth.
Contrasting the working Calico with the illusory Calico, Steeples
writes the complete history of the town from its natural setting to
its imaginary legacy.
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