Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also
been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction
of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to
gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the
literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock
Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing
and representation produced by people involved in the industry:
miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.
Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the
industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places
and the distinctive work they generated--the short fictions of the
California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada's Comstock
Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike.
With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks
at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry
produced a global literature.
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