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Treasure Hill: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp, In 1868, the discovery of an exceptionally rich silver ore on Treasure Hill in eastern Nevada, over nine thousand feet above sea level, led to an intense but short-lived boom. The White Pine Mining District was quickly organized, and in time a new Nevada , Treasure Hill: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp
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  • Treasure Hill: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp
  • Written by author W. Turrentine Jackson
  • Published by University of Nevada Press, 1989/12/15
  • In 1868, the discovery of an exceptionally rich silver ore on Treasure Hill in eastern Nevada, over nine thousand feet above sea level, led to an intense but short-lived boom. The White Pine Mining District was quickly organized, and in time a new Nevada
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Foreword xi
Preface 1
Chapter 1 The Beginning 5
Promoting the Boom 12
Routes to the Mines 20
Boom Towns 23
What of the Prospects? 27
Chapter 2 The Flourishing 35
Environment 48
Health 53
Newspapers 55
Lawlessness 60
Recreation 72
The Theater 81
The Church, The School, and Humanitarianism 86
Local Government 93
Partisan Politics 102
Property and Prosperity 109
Chapter 3 The Decline 127
The Struggle of Labor 128
The Problem of Water and the Peril of Fire 138
The Search for Capital 149
The Turning Point 154
Chapter 4 Rally and Collapse 165
British Contributions 172
British Determination and Adversity 186
Abandonment 198
Epilogue: The Mining Camp and the Frontier 213
Chapter Notes 229
Bibliography 245
Index 249


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