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4) Mining camps and ghost towns: a history of mining in Arizona and California along the lower Colorado
Author
Series
Great West and Indian volume 42
Publisher
Westernlore Press
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
M.T. Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This impressive volume on Arizona mining covers many historical aspects from the mines to the minerals to the transportation and extraction methods. Hundreds of towns in Arizona owed their longevity or in many cases their ephemeral existence based upon the productivity of the local mines. And mining captivated the Native Americans, Spanish, Mexicans and later the great influx of American miners and pioneers who arrived in Arizona after the Gadsden...
Author
Series
Bulletin volume no. 164
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English