GOLD RUSHES AND MINING CAMPS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN WEST
Caldwell: Caxton, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth with gilt-stamped image of miner & donkey on lower front cover. 466pp. Illust. Notes. Index of Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. If your bookseller were to pick a half-dozen best general survey books on Western mining, this would be right there.....