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From the title page: "Being a true, quite partial and somewhat humorous history of Alder Gulch, Montana, the state's richest placer mining district and the Cradle of Montana History...""NOTICE. Virginia City is in Montana. There is a Virginia City, Nevada, which was a mining camp and is now a tourist town. There the similarity ends. They have Lucius Beebe; we have the History of Alder Gulch, which included Summit, Highland, Pine Grove, Central, Nevada City, Adobetown, Junction and Virginia City."The Contents page includes chapters about Tobacco, Whisky, Mules, Gold, and more.Good condition. Cover has some soiling and spots. There are a couple of dark spots near the spine on the back cover that are also on a couple of the back pages. The inside cover and opposite page is a Map of the Territory of Montana. Text is clean. Binding is good. Spine is not creased. A good reading copy.Please use photos as part of the description.96 pages including Index.

From inside dust jacket:
Here are true tales of high adventure, often as incredible as they are exciting. Here, too, are the frustrations of the little army of desert rats, jackass prospectors and men from every walk of life, who, for a century and more, have been seeking the legendary treasure of the hundred and more lost ledges and lodes that lie somewhere between the sun-burned mountains of southwest Texas and the snow-covered peaks of Idaho and Montana.
The lure of finding a fortune in gold or silver in some secret, unknown canyon has not been dimmed by years of failure. Even today the true seeker of lost treasure knows it lies somewhere, just waiting to be found and carried away, with no shafts or tunnels to be dug, no costly machinery to be installed. For encouragement he has the expert opinion of mineralogists and mining engineers that there is still more gold in the ground than has ever been taken out of it.
It is not with the mythical but with the genuine lost bonanzas, such as the Lost… Read More