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Odyssey Of A Desert Prospector by Herman W. Albert, Univ Of Oklahoma Pr is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Odyssey Of A Desert Prospector about?

Herman W. Albert tells his own storythat of a young mans great romantic adventure in Nevada, from the day he turned prospector until he married and settled down to become a banker. Many an eastern tenderfoot went west to seek his fortune in the mining rushes from the 1850s until well into the twentieth century. Mr. Albert began his prospecting career in Tonopah, Nevada, in 1907-the real and lonely kind, he says, with burros as pack animals and a skillet over an open re for food preparation. Looking back over the span of sixty years separating him from that beginning, he recalls incidents and people with such clarity that the reader feels that he, too, is sharing the experiences. And what of the gold? It was usually just beyond the horizon, just over the next hill, although he did accumulate a modest stake. But he found gold far beyond the worth of the glittering sands he panned, a treasure of good friends and good fellowship in the active, outdoor life he loved. Mr. Albert is an entertaining narrator, and all lovers of Western Americana will enjoy his intimate, never-before-published story of the desert prospector, long a familiar character in the West. This book is volume 35 in TH

Author

Herman W. Albert, Univ Of Oklahoma Pr

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1967

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806111803

Rating

4.25 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14