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The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine

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Quarto, 150 pages, index, illustrated. VG in a rubbed dustwrapper with a few small tears and pieces missing to the edge.
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About The Great Western Quicksilver Mine in the Lake County - Napa County area. The mine is about eighty miles north of San Francisco Bay. the author was the daughter of a man who was the Superintendent for nearly twenty-five years and has used family letters, diaries old newspapers, eye-witness accounts and memories of people involved in her history of the mine. It covers the time period of roughly 1875 to 1900.
Author Helen Rocca Goss
Date 1958
Binding Hardbook
Publisher The Historical Society of Southern California

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