Beautiful Mine: Women Prospectors of the Old West

During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true stories of ladies who labored as hard as men out in the mines. A wonderful collection of true Americana, this book includes archival photographs of lady miners as well as the mines and boomtowns.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: 07/17/2008
ISBN: 9780762743728
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.86h x 6.13w x 0.46d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 81