Treasure Hill, Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. Item #005962
254pp., index. B&W maps and newspaper facsimiles. " In 1868 in eastern Nevada, on the crest of a 9,000-foot elevation, the discovery of rich silver ore raised the curtain on a drama of human energy which closed in a setting of ghost towns twenty years later. With it closed another chapter in the world-wide migration of 19th-century British capital which was poured into Treasure Hill by the millions until failure inevitably loomed." Bound in dark blue cloth, spine lettering silver, Near fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket wth fading to spine.
Price: $55.00
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