A beautiful mine
Subtitle: women prospectors of the old West
By: Chris Enss.
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Guilford, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762743728
Subjects: Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Women gold miners -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Prospecting -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Gold mines and mining -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Gold discoveries; West (U.S.) -- History, Local; West (U.S.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: Baby Doe Tabor : queen of the Matchless Mine; title: Ellen Nay : founder of the Ellendale Mines; title: Dame Shirley : miner on the Feather River; title: Nellie Cashman : toughest of the lady sourdoughs; title: Gertrude Peckwith : prospector at the Golden Empire; title: Frances Williams : founder of the Coaldale Mining Company; title: Lillian Malcolm : prospector in the Silver Peak Mountains; title: Josie Pearl : owner/operator of the Juanita Mine; title: Charley Hatfield : miner at Colorado's Pikes Peak; title: Ethel Berry : miner bride of the Klondike; title: Frances Allen Noyes : miner on Candle Creek; title: Ferminia Sarras : Nevada's copper mining queen; title: Glossary of mining terms.