After chasing Confederates in New Mexico and Arizona during the Civil War, veterans of the California Column stayed put and became pioneers of Arizona’s silver mining. One such vein, for the Silver King Mine, was discovered on the army’s strategic road, the Stoneman Grade. Jack San Felice tells the story of the rich mine and its satellite towns of Pinal City and Silver King, although he sometimes strays into the Superstition Mountains for the stories of the Lost Soldiers’ and Lost Dutch
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