Treasure Hill : portrait of a silver mining camp / W. Turrentine Jackson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781943859160
- 1943859167
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada -- White Pine County
- Mining camps -- Nevada -- White Pine County -- History
- Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- White Pine County -- History
- White Pine County (Nev.) -- History, Local
- White Pine County (Nev.) -- Social life and customs
- White Pine County (Nev.) -- Social conditions
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Manners and customs
- Mining camps
- Silver mines and mining
- Social conditions
- Nevada -- White Pine County
- 979.3/15 23
- F847.W5 J3 2000
Print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: The Beginning; Promoting the Boom; Routes to the Mines; Boom Towns; What of the Prospects?; Chapter Two: The Flourishing; Environment; Health; Newspapers; Lawlessness; Recreation; The Theater; The Church, The School, and Humanitarianism; Local Government; Partisan Politics; Property and Prosperity; Chapter Three: The Decline; The Struggle of Labor; The Problem of Water and the Peril of Fire; The Search for Capital; The Turning Point; Chapter Four: Rally and Collapse.
British ContributionsBritish Determination and Adversity; Abandonment; Epilogue: The Mining Camp and the Frontier; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index.
English.
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