GOLD CAMPS & SILVER CITIES. Merle W.Wells

Idaho's gold excitement began in 1862 and for many it has never ended. Who'd believe in mountain slopes sprinkled with glod? Hopeful argonauts did and ended up at Thunder Mountain.
Snowbound at Leesburg with food and health running out. Who else to the rescue but twelve shovel-wielding miners cutting a horse path through eighteen miles of snow, five to twenty feet deep.
Just how hard would a man work for a hole in the ground? To stay alive, he'd tote more than a pick in the Owyhee War or in the mining claim battles between the Hays and Ray and Poorman interests.
Silver City... Florence... Wood River & Ketchum... Pierce... Warren... Rocky Bar... Shoup & Ulysses... Boise Basin... Yankee Fork... Atlanta... Thunder Mountain.
Boom or bust -adventurous miners scrambled by the hundreds to these and other promising diggings in central and southern Idaho. Today, the names of the old camps stir memories of a great heyday in Idaho's gold and silver rushes.
Over 150 photographs and illustrations of the early mining days in Idaho accompany this extensively revised history.

Ref. 4674
Autor: Wells, Merle W.
Idioma: English
Editorial: Idaho Department of Lands
1983
21,50x28 cm.
165 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. 150 fotografías de la época. Buen estado.

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