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Shortly After The Turn Of The Century Discoveries By A Shoshone Prospector In The Barren Central Nevada Deserts Ignited The Last Great Goldrush On The Western Mining Frontier. Prospectors, Miners, Stock Promoters, Gamblers, Camp Followers, Roughs, Lawmen, And Anarchists, Among Others, Converged Upon This Unlikely Plot Of Sand And Joshua Trees From Every Corner Of The Earth. The Saga That Ensued Is First-rate. It Tells The Story Of Ordinary People - Their Everyday Lives, Hopes, Loves, And Dilemmas - As Well As The Fates Of The Newly Crowned Nabobs, Who Could Wager A Fortune On The Turn Of A Roulette Wheel. Hell-roaring Goldfield Passed Through The Same Stages Of Boom, Industrialization, And Decline As Its Mining-camp Predecessors, But With Some Significant Differences. Greed Knew No Bounds, Waves Of Epidemic Disease And Violent Death Swept The City, Mining Stock Speculation Reached New Heights, And The Tycoon Who Rose To The Top - The Ruthless Ex-gambler George Wingfield - Dominated Nevada For Years To Come. In Other Ways As Well, The Last Boomtown Cast A Long Shadow Over The Future. Goldfield Played A Key Role In The Nineteenth-century Mining Boom That Reversed Twenty Years Of Depr

Author

Sally Springmeyer Zanjani

Publisher

Athens [Ohio]: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804009614

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.17 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14