TREASURE HILL: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp.
Pp. [viii]+254+[2](colophon, verso blank), 3 full page newspaper facsimiles, 3 full page maps, full page diagram, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in silver, publisher's device in blind near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the boards a trifle canted and with a couple of faint edge bruises; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tape repairs on reverse, the backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1963. First edition. *Inscribed by Barbara and [William] Turrentine Jackson to Australian historians Daniel and Annette Potts on the upper free endpaper. The story of the discovery of silver ore on the crest of a 9,000-foot elevation in eastern Nevada in 1868. Item #174746
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