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Conceived in World War I, the 5th Marine Regiment is the Corps's most decorated regiment. This lively and comprehensive history brings the exploits of the regiment vividly to life invoking a full appreciation of what it means when the call comes to "send in the Marines.

When the colorful western prospectors had made their strikes and moved on, they left behind them another, lesser known breed of men, the hard-rock miners. For six decades these working stiffs followed mining opportunities into the boom towns of the intermountain West and gouged from the depths other men's wealth. In mines ranging from glorified prospect holes to underground extractories, they picked and blasted, sometimes in shifts of twelve h...