[A] fascinating study in the microcosm of the birth, development, and decline of the western mining frontier. [Rohrbough] admirably places the changes within the context of half a century of continuous mining excitement that stretched from Sutter's Mill in California in 1848 to the Klondike in 1898.
—Choice
This is a history meticulously researched and excitingly told.
— Walter Nugent, author ofInto the West: The Story of Its People
Malcolm J. Rohrboughis Professor of History at the University of Iowa and the author ofThe Land-Office Business, The Trans-Appalachian Frontier, andDays of Gold.
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