L1      

Husson Miners’s Lamps – Manufactured in Oshkosh

Covers the Husson candlesticks, oil wick lamps and the “Oshkosh” carbide lamp.  Well illustrated. 

$6.00 postpaid.

L2     

American Miners’ Carbide Lamps  by Gregg Clemmer.

136 pages, 120 illustrations, hardcover, dust jacket.  This is a beautiful book. 

H82   

Gold Dust  by Dale Jackson. 

The authentic story of the forty-niners in all its sweep, color, and variety.  Good reading!  361 pages, soft cover, photos. 

$18.00 postpaid.

(Limited quantity)

H101  

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West  by Fisher and Holmes. 

This beautiful book contains 466, 447 illustrations, 12” x 9”, cloth cover.  It took three years to prepare and is one great book that you will want to add to your library. 

$33.00 postpaid. 

H188  

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California  by Remi Nadeau, 1999. 

This lively guide to the mining camps and ghost towns tells the story of the Gold Rush and other mining excitements that once dominated the saga of California.  This book covers more than 170 such towns, many in dramatic detail.  335 pages, 55 old photos, 5 maps, bibliography, index, soft cover. 

$17.95 postpaid.

H232  

Coloma, First Town of the Mountains  by Alan H. Patera,1999. 

The first comprehensive publication on the town that grew near Sutter’s Mill, where gold was discovered – sparking the California Gold Rush of 1849.  Coloma was quite a town in the 1850’s and the mercantile center for thousands of miners.  Large size, 92 pages, photos, soft cover. 

H260  

Central City and Gilpin County:  Then and Now  by Robert Brown.  This book tells the story of this remarkable gold mining area, including its mines, town and people.  200 pages, soft cover.  An excellent book. 

$10.95  postpaid.

H261  

The Streets Were Paved With Gold:  A Pictorial History of the Klondike Gold Rush – 1998-1899  by Stan Cohen, 1995. 

The greatest gold rush in North America’s history took place in Canada’s Yukon Territory.  This is the story in pictures!  An excellent book.  Large size, 212 pages, 300 photos, maps, soft cover. 

$11.95 postpaid.

H262  

Make it Pay!  Gold Dredge #4  by David Neufeld and Patrick Habiluk, 1996. 

A pictorial history of the world’s largest wooden-hulled gold dredge located in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada.  Large size, 64 pages, excellent photos. 

$10.00 postpaid

H264  

Gold Rush Gateway: Skagway and Dyea, Alaska  by Stan Cohen, 1999 edition.  The definitive photographic history of these two gold rush gateway towns.  Lots of excellent photos!  142 pages, 241 photos, large size, soft cover. 

$11.50 postpaid.

H266  

Fire in the Hole:  The Untold Story of Hard Rock Miners  by Jerry Dolph, 1994. 

Jerry Dolph’s gritty story of contemporary hard rock mining is a view of the industry through the eyes of miners themselves.  For 16 years, the author worked in mines in western Montana, Idaho’s Silver Valley and elsewhere in the west.  This extensively illustrated account gives a voice to the courage and endurance of the forgotten hard rock miner.  184 pages, photographs, map, hard cover,

$40.00 hardcover

$29.95 softcover postpaid. 

H295  

Mines of Clark County  by William O. Vanderburg. 

This 1937 (reprint) report covers southern Nevada districts: Eldorado, Canyon, Gold Butte, Goodsprings, St. Thomas, Searchlight and Sunset.  80 pages, illustrated, soft cover. 

$16.25 postpaid.

H297  

Mines of Lander and Eureka Counties  by William O. Vanderburg. 

This 1939 (reprint) report covers eastern Nevada districts: Battle Mountain, Kingston, Lewis, McCoy, Cortez, Eureka, Mineral Hill, Palisade, Union, etc.  136 pages, illustrated, map, soft cover. 

$16. 95 postpaid.

H315  

Platero  by Leland Feitz. 

A history of one of Colorado’s colorful old mining camps.  40 unusually interesting photographs, drawings and maps.  New updated text.  A neat book!   Soft cover. 

$4.95 postpaid.

H329  

Mines of Battle Mountain, Reese River, Austin and Other Nevada Districts  by J.M. Hill, 1915 (reprint). 

Also covers California’s Lassen and Modoc counties, Douglas County, Peavine, Pine Grove, etc.,  200 pages, maps, index, soft cover,

$21.95 postpaid.

H331  

Emanations of Silver Islet Volume I 

$10.00 postpaid

H341  

Further Emanations of Silver Islet Volume II 

$10.00 postpaid

H349  

Gold Occurrences of Colorado  by Davis.  Colorado Geological Survey’s authoritative and comprehensive listing of gold occurrences by district throughout the state including output and extensive geological data.  Fold-out district map included.  101 pages. 

$22.00 postpaid.

H358  

Still More Emanations of Silver Islet Volume III  by Bill MacDonald.  The story of mining silver at Silver Islet in Lake Superior is a story of immense hardships, isolation, frigid temperatures and determination.  Large size, full of photos, soft cover. 

$10.00 postpaid.  

H366  

Queen City of the North:  Dawson City, Yukon, A Pictorial History  by Stan Cohen.  The most comprehensive visual and historical record published on Dawson City to date.  Large size, 136 pages, over 300 photos, soft cover. 

$11.50 postpaid.

H373  

Gold Panning and Placering in Colorado  by Parker. 

If you are interested in Colorado gold and placering history, this book will provide colorful stories, facts and little know information about the early explorations into Colorado’s gold bearing mountains.  A very attractive book. 

$21.95  postpaid.

H400  

An Empire of Silver  by Robert L. Brown. 

Set in the spectacularly beautiful San Juan region so southwestern Colorado, this 224 page illustrated volume covers an especially fascinating and colorful history of hard-rock mining in the Centennial State.  This alpine region is unlike most other mountain districts in Colorado.  224 pages, hard cover, lots of great photos, index, large size.  #39.00 plus

$3.00 shipping. 

H425  

Gold Fever  by DeLorenzo. 

Full-page illustrations on the mechanics of panning and sluicing.  Contains maps of Western state gold locations.  Numerous illustrations.  80 pages, soft cover. 

$7.95 postpaid.

H426  

Where to Find Gold & Gems in Nevada  by Klein. 

Maps and descriptive text on each county show historic and current mining sites and what gems can be found at each site. 

$9.99 postpaid.

H431  

Early Mining Days, California Gold Country:  The Story Behind the Scenery  by Paher. 

Stunning full-color pictorial to the places and faces of the California Gold Rush.  Explores the 125 mile long Mother Lode region extending along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.  A neat book for you library. 

$8.95 postpaid.

H442  

The Rockhound and Prospector’s Bible  by L.J. Ettinger. 

This book describes mineral and gold locations in geological terms.  The book is illustrated throughout with charts and sketches.  136 pages. 

$10.95 postpaid.

H449  

Ghost Towns and Historical Haunts of Arizona  by Heatwole. 

Stories that first appeared in the “Arizona Republic” and “Phoenix Gazette” reveals real life in the old mining towns in words and photos.  144 pages, photos. 

$7.95 postpaid.

H453  

Aurora: Ghost City of the Dawn  by Stewart. 

An entertaining fresh view of life in one of Nevada’s premier gold mining cities of the 1860’s. 

$6.95 postpaid.

H476  

Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado’s Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns  by Philip Varney, Photography by John Drew, 1999.

Here is an engaging, anecdotal, yet historical guidebook to he ghost towns and former mining camps of Colorado.  Includes maps, directions, etc.  Large size, 160 pages, 145 color photos, black and white photographs, maps, index, bibliography, hard cover.  This is a really neat book! 

$31.95 postpaid.

H497  

Silverton  by Duane Smith. 

One of Colorado’s most respected historians has mixed a snappy text with dozens of photos and maps making this 100 page book something special.  Soft cover. 

$10.95 postpaid.

H507  

Mines of Tuscarora, Cortez, and Other Northern Nevada Districts  by W.H. Emmons. 

U.S. Geological Survey Mining Bulletin.  This 1910 bulletin (reprint) covers Midas, Edgemont, Tenabo, Lander and Lewis Districts.  Includes F.L. Ransome’s 1909 bulletin on Humboldt County featuring Seven Troughs, Pahute and Sonoma Ranges.  220 pages, maps, index, soft cover. 

$16.95 postpaid.

H519  

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge  by Duane A. Smith. 

The Durango & Silverton Railroad serviced the many gold and silver mines of this famous region.  If you are interested in Colorado mining history you will want to add this book to your library!  106 pages, excellent photos, soft cover. 

$10.95  postpaid.

H524  

Faith of Fools:  A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush  by William Shape, 1998. 

William Shape’s dramatic journal and accompanying photographs give a human dimension to the journey undertaken b vast hordes of prospectors who headed north during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1908’s.  This previously unpublished diary was compiled by a man with a keen photographer’s eye and an author’s attention to detail.  136 pages, photographs, maps, soft cover. 

$26.95  postpaid.

H539  

Marble & Redstone  by Jim Nelson. 

An interesting history of the famous Colorado marble quarries and town.  Many excellent photos. A book that you will want to add to your Colorado library!  138 pages, soft cover. 

$9.25

H544  

Copper For America:  The United States Copper Industry From Colonial Times to the 1990s. 

By Charles K. Hyde.  I am happy to offer this comprehensive new history.  The first chapter deals with eastern industry from the turn of the 18^th century to the mid – 1800’s.  The author then focuses on the three major American copper mining districts, Michigan, Montana and Arizona, comparing their distinctive economic and business histories, leadership and technologies.  This is an excellent book!  300 pages, extensive notes, three maps, a glossary, hard cover, dust jacket, bibliography essay. 

$42.50 postpaid.

H568  

The Roar and the Silence:  A history of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode  by Ronald James. 

The first comprehensive treatment of Comstock society to incorporate mining history with the stories of the people who lived it.  384 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, soft cover.  You will want this book in your library! 

$29.95

H573  

Eureka and its Resources  by Lambert Molinelli. 

Eureka and its Resources is a charming account of mining in boom times and is full of information for the student of Western mining.  144 pages, illustrated, soft cover. 

$12.95 postpaid.

H574  

Nevada’s Twentieth – Century Mining Boom, Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely  by Russell R. Elliot, 1988. 

This book chronicles the classic pattern of gold and silver rushes and emphasizes the difference between Nevada’s two boom periods, pointing to the stability of the second bonanza.  The author also details the entrance of radical labor into the new camps and the violent strikes that followed at Goldfield, McGill, and Tonopah.  344 pages, photos, soft cover. 

$14.95  postpaid.

H588  

Searchlight:  The Camp That Didn’t Fall  by Harry Reid, 1998. 

The history of Searchlight is part of Nevada’s early-twentieth-century mining boom, which unlike earlier booms was facilitated by advanced mining technologies, but was also more vulnerable to fluctuations in the international market for precious metals.  233 pages, photos, hard cover, dust jacket.  A really interesting book! 

$21.95 postpaid.

H630  

Lies, Legends and Lore of the San Juans  by Roger Henn. 

An Ouray, Colorado native, Roger Henn relates tales of early miners, lost gold mines, life in tiny San Juan mountain towns, etc.  192 pages, 43 illustrations, soft cover.

$12.95 postpaid.

H633  

The Rush to White Pine  by Alan H. Patera, 1988. 

The mining rush to the White Pine District in northeastern Nevada in 1868 was certainly not the largest or most significant of the mining rushes of the 19^th century, nor did it have a lasting impact in terms of generating a permanent settlement.  It was significant as the first big mining rush after the Civil War.  68 pages, full of photographs, index, soft cover. 

$11.50 postpaid.

H635  

Goodsprings Nevada Including Sandy, Jean, Keystone, Platina, Ripley and the Yellow Pine Mine Camp  by Alan H. Patera, 1999. 

The Yellow Pine Mining District is remarkable for the diverse variety of minerals that were profitably extracted-gold, silver, copper, vanadium, lead and even platinum were taken from its mines.  Full of interesting photos.  44 pages, large size, soft cover, maps. 

$10.00 postpaid.

H637  

Where to Find Gold in Northern California  by James Klein, 2000. 

Here, you will take a trip with Jim through some of the most beautiful gold bearing country you will ever see.  Visit old mines and ghost towns and hear the tales of the lost treasure.  Further, you will learn about the techniques and equipment used by the old times and today’s modern gold seekers.  153 pages, photos, soft cover. 

$11.95 postpaid.

H643  

Mountains of Silver:  Life in Colorado’s Red Mountain Mining District  by P. David Smith. 

A little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a “silver rush” with an output of precious metals second in Colorado only to that of Leadville.  In a period of less than twenty-five years, more than thirty million dollars in silver, lead, zinc, copper and gold were taken from the rich deposits in the mines along Red Mountain Divide.  221 pages, photos, soft cover.  A really interesting book! 

$18.95 postpaid.

H649  

Ghost Towns of the Northwest:  A Guide to Our Western Heritage  by Norman D. Weis. 

Sixty-two ghost towns from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana are individually described with the history of each town and specific directions on how to find it.  Nearly twenty are unknown to the general public.  319 pages, 248 photographs, 22 maps, index. 

$19.95 postpaid.

H656  

Mines of the Goldfield, Bullfrog, and Other Southern Nevada Districts  by F.L Ransome. 

This 1907 (reprint) also covers Searchlight, Eldorado, Crescent and Gold Mountain.  Two illustrated articles written in 1907, capture the flavor and excitement of the mining era.  144 pages, maps, index, color map, 22” x 28” laid-in, soft cover. 

$21.95  postpaid.

H668   

Father Struck it Rich  by Evalyn Walsh McLean. 

Thomas Walsh discovered fabulous wealth at the Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado.  No one except Walsh thought to check the mines for gold at a time when the San Juan Mountains were silver country.  When he learned the fabulous results of his secret assays, he whispered to Evalyn, “Daughter, I’ve struck it rich”.  Father Struck it Rich takes the reader from humble times to unbelievable riches and back.  232 pages, 31 photos, soft cover. 

$16.95 postpaid.

H672  

Crooked Past:  The History of a Frontier Mining Camp:  Fairbanks, Alaska  by Terrence Cole, 1991. 

The crookedest street in Fairbanks, and Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named to town founder E.T. Barnette.  He struck it rich after founding the city of Fairbanks in the 1900’s, but less than ten years later he was run out of the territory.  An interesting book!  163 pages, photos, soft cover,

$11.00 postpaid.

H679

The Making of a Hardrock Miner  by Stephen M. Voynick, 1997. 

This book is about mining in the American West!  As a first-person accounts of work in a Colorado molybdenum mine, two Wyoming uranium mines and an Arizona copper mine, this book is a colorful statement of the West’s hardrock mining culture.  It provides a rear glimpse of miners and, in their own unique vernacular, tells of their attitudes, values and camaraderie, along with the humor that helps them to cope with dark, dangerous underground shifts.  224 pages, photographs, soft cover, An excellent book that you will want in your library!

$14.50 postpaid. 

Lundy, Mono County, California is situated in a rugged canyon near Mono Lake.  Today, few visitors to Lundy are aware of the thriving town that Lundy once was.  This interesting book covers both the town of Lundy and its mines.  Large size, 88 pages, photos, soft cover. 

 GOLD IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA by Jones & Schmerling, 2002. Includes gold locations in Adams, York, and Lancaster Counties. Large size, maps, photos, soft cover.

H774

BOOMTOWN BLUES: COLORADO OIL SHALE by Andrew Gulliford, 2003. This book examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry’s continued cycles of boom and bust. 336 pages, 37 photos, maps, soft cover.

VIDEO – THE MAGIC OF HOMESTAKE. Here is an excellent video that provides an overview of the famous Homestake Gold Mine located in Lead, South Dakota. VHS