Includes index, glossary and bibl.

Colorado Collection

11th printing, April, 1967, 10th printing, April 1965, 2nd printing, October 1949

Story of the pioneering prospectors and the towns that grew up around the mines in the American west. The remains of the towns are all that is left of the waves of people who followed the lure of gold and silver mines.

FFML/STC 6/93 15.95 CHINOOK Colorado Collection

A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.

Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untamable landscape, and her greatest surprise of all: the kind and loving man who awaits her. But when the mine proves empty of profit, and when Juniper's husband, John, vanishes, Juniper is left to fend for herself and her young daughter in the dwindling boomtown that is now her home. Juniper pens letters to her husband but fears she...