Arizona’s rugged central mountains, with their brawny mountains and twisting, boulder-choked canyons were a perfect place to lose a mine. Coronado’s...
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The Hazards of Underground Mining
Those hard rock miners in mining camps like Bisbee, Morenci, Virginia City and Jerome, faced a number of hazards including gas pockets, cave ins,...
The Angel of the Cassiars
Nellie Cashman came to the rescue of stranded miners. Nellie Cashman was one of the great figures in the Old West, an entrepreneur who was famed for...
Flakes that Changed the World
And you can see the gold that started the rush. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold flakes while constructing Sutter’s Mill near...
Rocky Mountain Bonanzas
Explore mining history from Cripple Creek to Grand Encampment. It happened all across the West: a spark from a stove or fireplace set one wooden...
The Town of Christmas Arizona
In Southwestern Gila County nestled in the remote canyons of the Dripping Springs Mountains, just west of Jerusalem Peak lies what remains of the...
The Edge of the West
William Henry Jackson, a member of the Hayden Survey, photographed the miners working the North Star and Mountaineer lodes at their camp on King...
Henry Wickenburg
Gold prospector Henry Wickenburg had been frustrated in his attempts to find the yellow metal. He’d missed Captain Joe Walker’s expedition up the...
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The oil-enriched town preserves and celebrates its Western heritage. The 150,000 Boomers and Sooners who flooded into the Oklahoma...
The Stonewall Jackson Mine
Charlie McMillan was a man, to put it politely, strongly addicted to ardent spirits. One night in 1876, he was doing the town of Globe with his...
Joe’s Mule “Anybody who’s ever tried to put a braid in a mule’s tale knows a thing or two more about the process than someone who hasn’t."
Old timers used to say, “Anybody who’s ever tried to put a braid in a mule’s tale knows a thing or two more about the process than someone who...
Alexander Todd Without having to touch a pick, gold pan, cradle or a shovel, Alexander Todd struck paydirt...
There were many entrepreneurial men who found a way to “mine the miners,” including Levi Strauss, John M. Studebaker, Philip Armour and Ah Toy, who...