Miners (Old West Series) Wallace, Robert by Wallace, Robert - 1977-04-01

Time Life Education, 1977-04. Hardcover. Good.

Time Life Education, 1977-04-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.6000 in x 10.8000 in x 8.4000 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Time Life Education, 1977-04-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Beautifully embossed brown leather with pictorial pastedown!-" A pictorial and descriptive chronicle of the westward rush of prospectors and entrepreneurs in search of the gold and other precious ores to be found from Mexico to the Yukon in the second half of the nineteenth century. The first section of this book is labeled "A rough way to get rich." And, indeed, a miner's life could be difficult. While some miners could become rich, others went empty-handed after brutally hard work. The book notes that (Page 6): "Once the great California gold strike of 1848 had shown what riches the Western earth could hold, hordes of Americans hurried to every other promising corner of the wilderness." -This book is full of terrific photographs and of stories--of the tools of mining, of the miners themselves, of the communities that emerged as a result of mines. Pages 6-18 provide a rich set of such photos, although many others are scattered throughout this book.-The book, as already noted, provides entree to the… Read More