Mining in the West
By: edited by Alan Probert.
Contributors: Probert, Alan.
Publisher: Sunflower University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Manhattan, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"From the April 1981 Journal of the West with one additional article."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alan Probert; title: Mineral exploration in the Spanish Borderlands, 1513-1846 / Duane Kendall Hale; title: Freighters and railroads: the growth of the Black Hills freight and stage lines and the role of the railroads / Kenneth M. Hammer; title: Leading the way: the prospector in the Trans-Mississippi West / Glenn K.M. Chang; title: Women and mining in the Old West / Margaret S. Woyski; title: Mining for gold in California: reminiscences of an old timer / William S. Eggleston; title: Mining for gold in California: the original sixteen to one mine / William B. Clark and Williard P. Fuller, Jr.; title: Catorce, haunt of miners' ghosts / Vicente Cisneros; title: Alaska's mineral bonanzas of yesteryear / Earl H. Beistline; title: The fire in the Tonopah Belmont Mine / Sally Springmeyer Zanjani; title: Promoting the Alta Tunnel: the rise and fall of F.V. Bodfish / Laurence P. James and Henry O. Whiteside; title: Wet mines / Alan Probert.