Bonanzas & Borrascas, Volume 27: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 1885-1918

by Richard E. Lingenfelter

The second of a two-volume study of the heyday of gold, silver, and copper mining in the American West is unique in both scope and approach. Here is a saga of mines and money, of the richly profitable bonanzas and crushingly profitless borrascas of the West. Richard E. Lingenfelter describes how miners, managers, investors, and speculators produced enormous wealth--spurring the American economy, attracting myriads of Argonauts and settlers, and transforming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870624067
• ISBN13: 9780870624063
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"