The Bonanza West: the story of the Western mining rushes, 1848-1900

Preface

The rush to California

California mines

California miners

The discovery of the Comstock Lode

The development of the Comstock Lode

Life in the Nevada mines

Early days in Colorado

Leadville, Creede, and Cripple Creek

Montana gold and silver

Butte copper

Idaho mines of the sixties and seventies

The Coeur d'Alene labor troubles

The Black Hills: Indians and gold

The Black Hills: Deadwood and Lead

The Klondike rush

Klondike developments

"Gold is where you find it".

Illustrations: John A. Sutter

William C. Ralston

Hoisting works of the Consolidated Virginia Mine, Virginia City, Nevada

Nevada daredevils shooting a timber flume

Amethyst, Colorado, later renamed Creede, in February, 1892

Freighting over Ute Pass from Cripple Creek, Colorado

A street in Upper Creede, Colorado, in the 1890's

The Gunnison Exchange Saloon in Creede, Colorado

Interior view of the opera house in Central City, Colorado

A Montana prospector panning gold

Working at the 1,100-foot level of the Rarus Mine at Butte, Montana

The first gold dredge in Montana, built in 1865

Anaconda, Montana, in 1887

Hydraulic mining in Alder Gulch, Montana, 1871

A miner and his rocker in Alder Gulch, Montana, about 1870

Noah Kellogg's famous burro

Bunker Hill and Sullivan Concentrator, Wardner, Idaho, before 1899 explosion

After 1899 explosion

"Black Hills or bust"

Prospectors aboard ship on their way to the Klondike

Klondike miners and packers climbing Chilkoot Pass.

Maps: Western mining rushes, 1848-1900

California

Nevada

Colorado

Montana

Idaho

Black Hills Region

Alaska-Yukon.