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A beautiful mine women prospectors of the old West /

Main Author: Enss, Chris, 1961-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Guilford, Conn. : TwoDot, [2008]
Physical Description: xii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women gold miners -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Prospecting -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Gold mines and mining -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Gold discoveries.
West (U.S.) -- History, Local.
West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Baby Doe Tabor : queen of the Matchless Mine
  • Ellen Nay : founder of the Ellendale Mines
  • Dame Shirley : miner on the Feather River
  • Nellie Cashman : toughest of the lady sourdoughs
  • Gertrude Peckwith : prospector at the Golden Empire
  • Frances Williams : founder of the Coaldale Mining Company
  • Lillian Malcolm : prospector in the Silver Peak Mountains
  • Josie Pearl : owner/operator of the Juanita Mine
  • Charley Hatfield : miner at Colorado's Pikes Peak
  • Ethel Berry : miner bride of the Klondike
  • Frances Allen Noyes : miner on Candle Creek
  • Ferminia Sarras : Nevada's copper mining queen.

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