The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada

by Sally Zanjani

Goldfield, Nevada, was one of the West's last mining boomtowns, centered on a fabulously rich gold deposit discovered in 1902 and exhausted by 1920. Goldfield's heyday embraced both the final days of the western frontier and the beginning of the automobile age, and its brief but brilliant history combined elements of both. Distinguished mining historian Sally Zanjani has a personal connection to Goldfield--her father was one of thousands who went...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874175208
• ISBN13: 9780874175202
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.1" x 8.6"