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NV - Glasscock on Nevada (Publications) :

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Books & Manuscripts Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
NV - Glasscock on Nevada (Publications) :
Lot of seven books by Glasscock, C.B. 1) Four copies of Gold in Them Hills, The Story of the West's Last Wild Mining Days, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. First edition, illustrated, copyright 1932. Hardcover, indexed, 330 pages including photographs and illustrations. One copy includes a portion of the work's dust jacket attached to the inside cover, which highlights portions of the text to follow. The author covers the rise and fall of historic mining camps such as Tonopah, Goldfield, Rhyolite, and Rawhide. Stories concerning famous personalities of the territory such as Senators Tasker Oddie and Key Pittman, George Wingfield, Charles M. Schwab, and Tex Rickard are also conveyed. 2) A fifth copy of Gold in Them Hills, from A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, New York , 1933 is also included. 3) Lucky Baldwin, The Story of an Unconventional Success, hardcover, 308 pages including photographs and illustrations. A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, New York,1933. In this work, the author relates the story of "the embodiment of the unmoral frontier, the greatest individualist of the West when individualism was a creed; who crowned wealth, notoriety, accomplishment, obloquy, amusement, and success with a great age and with a luck that he always denied but that has been demonstrated in the accumulation of millions of dollars; in short, Lucky Baldwin." 4) A Golden Highway, hardcover, indexed, 333 pages including maps, photographs, and illustrations. A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, New York, 1934. The author covers the newly mapped "Mother Lode Highway" as it travels from Mariposa to Downieville, extends past the Mother Lode into the Feather River region, and travels to the Trinity River area of the Coast Range. It also discusses the views of Bret Harte and Mark Twain, among others. Many of these tales come easily to Glasscock, as he was there to witness them. After arriving at Greenwater following the original Goldfield and Bullfrog mining booms, he and C.E. Kunze began The Death Valley Chuck-Walla newspaper, followed by The Greenwater Miner magazine. Following the depression of 1907 the sale of stock stopped, causing the failure of both the newspaper and magazine. After completion of his successful book The Big Bonanza, the author returned to Nevada to recapture additional stories of the past, many of which were captured in his later works.