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Quicksilver : Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company by Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter, 1917- is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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Before Terlingua achieved some notoriety as the site of the annual World Championship Chili Cookoff, the ghost town was the bustling center of the mercury mining industry in the United States. Quicksilver tells the story of the company town and its feudal lord, Chicago industrialist Howard E. Perry, who built a hilltop mansion overlooking the dry domain. Based on many primary sources, this solidly researched and historically sound book tells of profit, power, and loss; of U.S. Army protection fr
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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter, 1917-
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780890961889
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Economics, Business, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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