Caldwell garry (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. "Gold high on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada had brought prospectors racing to Mammoth City, California. General Dodge and other moneyed men from San Francisco rushed to the new strike, bought up claims, and formed the Mammoth Mining Company. The company drove several tunnels into Mineral Hill, built a 40-stamp mill, a tramway, and a flume from Twin Lakes. Yet barely two years later the mill shut down forever and the following year all the company's property was sold at a sheriff's sale. What went wrong? Was it just bad luck? Or mismanagement? Fraud? Highgrading? . [An account which] combines an historian's obsession for accuracy with a writer's love for the people who lived, worked, and died in Lake District. Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, including two fold out schematics. List of mining terms, works cited, index. xvii, 169 pp. Near fine in glossy wrappers.…