Bonanzas & Borrascas: Gold Lust & Silver Sharks, 1848-1884

by Richard E. Lingenfelter

The first 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: 0870624059
• ISBN13: 9780870624056
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"