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Tales of the Pioneers
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W.A. Chalfant, dean of California newspaper editors, has chronicled the history of the California-Nevada border as he himself heard it recounted or saw it occur during his fifty-five years of continuous service as editor of The Inyo Register of Bishop, California.
The author tells of the country, of its inhabitants, of the ups and downs of some of the camps, of its prospectors, of the luck, good or bad, rather than recounting only the deeds and activities of a few of the "headline" characters of the old days.
Chalfant's anecdotes are not the "tall tales" that grow taller with each retelling, and are probably the more interesting for that reason. One that appealed particularly to the publishers is in the chapter on "Law as It Was Administered." We hope you like it: It is related that magistrates of the early courts of the Far West included men of widely varying character and ability, from men who were very capable "to the Bodie justice of rabbit-like powers of decision who, after prolonged arguments by opposing attorneys, threw the issue back in their laps with the statesmen: 'You'll have to settle it between yourselves; I can't make heard nor tail of it.' "
The author: W. A. ("Bill") Chalfant was born in Virginia City, Nevada, and has lived all of his life in the high Sierra country. In 1885 his family moved to Bishop, and there in 1885 started The Inyo Register. His life has been full of action, of editorial battles fought and won, of civic leadership that is typical of a man who knows well whereof he speaks -- and writes. For years he has been gathering the material which is included in this book.
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Tales of the Pioneers
Willie Arthur Chalfant
Stanford University Press, 1942
129 pages
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The Economics of Mining: Valuation, Organization, Management
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Published in 1933 with second edition in 1938.
Here is an introduction to the vast field of mining economy, a subject somewhat neglected in the past but which has assumed in the last few years an increasing importance to all thoughtful mining engineers. No attempt is made to present a definite technical treatise but rather to develop in an orderly manner certain theories and methods, in accord with good general practice, resulting from a study of the literature of the profession and tested by personal experience in many parts of the world.
Examples and descriptions presented in this book have been drawn primarily from the branch of mining concerned with the production of non-ferrous metals; the particular problems arising from the mining of coal and iron, within the oil and gas industry, and from the mining of quarrying of building materials and other non-metallic minerals have been dealt with at length by other writers.
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Title The Economics of Mining
Author Hoover
Publisher Stanford University Press 1938
ISBN 0804761892, 9780804761895
Virginia and Truckee
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The year 1896 saw the completion of the first transcontinental railroad and the birth of the Virginia & Truckee. While Central Pacific and Union Pacific approached their historic junction in Utah, another chapter in the railroading history of the American West was unfolding in Nevada.
Modest only in length, the V & T was a short-line carrier of incredible treasure, taking out the ore of the Comstock Lode, the world's richest known silver deposit, It also delivered necessities and devisings of luxury for booming Virginia City, cosmopolis of the Comstock. The precipitous grades were thought unsafe for risking private cars but with the arrival in Virginia City of the celebrated car "Pullman" with its designer aboard, others soon followed, bering such notables as President Grant and General Sherman. The Carson & Colorado was built in the 1880's as a subsidiary line to connect with the new boom towns of Hawthorne, Candelaria, Bodie, Aurora, and Benton. The strikes at Tonopah and Goldfield were yet to come. "After the epic convulsions of the nineteenth century the V & T enjoyed briefly the heady excitements of the southern nevada bonanzas as long as they lasted." The Second World War enabled the V & T, like many another short line, to live a while longer on borrowed time. Here is its flamboyant history in words, maps, and contemporary drawings and photographs.
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Virginia & Truckee: a story of Virginia City and Comstock times
By Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles Clegg, E. S. Hammack, Frederic Shaw
Published by G. H. Hardy, 1949
Original from the University of California
Digitized Apr 18, 2007
58 pages
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Mark Twain's Western Years
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Before coming West in 1861 Mark Twain had served two apprenticeships -- as a printer and as a pilot on the Mississippi. But it was after coming to Nevada that he began his career as a writer, to emerge five and one-half years later a literary figure with a national reputation.
From the time he joined the staff of the Territorial Enterprise, after having spent a year as a silver miner, his development was continuous. He grew into more than humorist. he became an accomplished social satirist, and with a gradually broadening scope wrote artistically with a variety of effects, from the coarsest burlesque to fine descriptive and informational articles. His Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Letters from the Sandwich Islands, written at this time, established his reputation in the East.
Mr. Benson has provided not only an interesting biographical account of Mark Twain's years in the West but also the first intensive study of his contributions to Western periodicals. He supplies new data for the evaluation of Twain's literary development and corrects some misconceptions and errors of statement on the part of his biographers and critics, including whether or not Samuel Clemens was the "original Mark Twain," the facts concerning the duel controversy, and the influence of Artemus Ward and Bret Harte on Mark Twain's writing.
Considerable Mark Twain material not heretofore reprinted is included, as well as a bibliography of his Western writings.
The author is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Southern California.
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Mark Twain's western years
By Ivan Benson, Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Published by Stanford University Press, 1938
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Mar 6, 2008
218 pages
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Contents
BEGINNINGS OF AUTHORSHIP I 1
Mark Twain , Samuel Clemens , Hannibal
IMPACT OF THE FRONTIER 21
Mark Twain , Sam Clemens , Carson City
SILVER MINER 35
Carson City , Nevada Territory , Territorial Enterprise
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