Here, for the first time, is a clear account in words and
pictures of the methods by which gold and silver were extracted and
processed in the Old West. The author describes the early days of
Spanish and Indian mining and the wild era inaugurated by the
American prospector who rushed west to get rich quick, ending with
the year 1893, when repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
virtually closed the mining frontier.
The account gives in laymen's language the techniques employed
in prospecting, placering, lode mining, and milling, particularly
those employed by the Spaniards, Indians, and Cornishmen, and shows
how the ever-practical Americans adapted and improved them. Special
attention is given to the methods employed in the California and
Montana gold fields, Colorado and the Comstock Lode, the Black
Hills, and Tombstone, Arizona. In these pages the reader also meets
some of the unforgettable personalities whose lives enriched (and
sometimes impoverished) the mining camps.
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