After the Gold Rushes Ended
Herr, Richard / Herr, Sarah
The history of the California and Alaska gold rushes is well known. Less well known is the nature of the mining industry in the American West, Mexico, and Central America in the following decades. This book follows the lives of Irving Herr and his wife Luella Winship to provide a picture of the world of mining in the early twentieth century. Irving was a mining engineer whose jobs between 1901 and 1912 took him to California, Nevada, Costa Ric...