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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 1st printing. Cloth. 196pp. Illus. Notes. Bibliography. Index. One of the best books on the technology of mining in the historic Old West. Near fine copy in moderately shelf-rubbed, but still vg. dj.
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Fine. Book First edition. xii, 196pp. Illustrated with 6 color photographs, 23 black & white illustrations, double-page map. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. Black cloth. A fine copy with slightly rubbed dust jacket. Covers the years, after 1860, of the great Bonanza strikes and of the men and the evolution of the machinery they used: the double-jack, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, steam engine, etc. The major strikes included Henry Wickenburg's Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelin's discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; The Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, etc.
