Author : Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781979848862
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 by : Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Download or read book Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 written by Clifford Alpheus Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded Second Edition of Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 chronicles the history of one of Nevada's earliest and most important mining boomtowns. It is a reference-oriented book, which includes hundreds of edited and annotated newspaper clippings and other firsthand accounts about Aurora's buildings, businesses, major mines, social life, Paiute citizens, ghost town days, and final destruction over the entire length of its century-long history. This new edition has 98 additional pages with a new section on violence at Aurora during 1863 and 1864, more information about the Daly gang, complete directories for the boom years 1864, 1880, and 1915, and an annotated list of residents from 1861-1864 and 1880. The book now includes 14 maps and over 200 photographs.