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A Beautiful Mine: Women Prospectors of the Old West
by Chris Enss
From the back cover:
As owners of claims and as workers on the land, female miners made fortunes panning and mining, working right alongside men in the copper, silver, and gold fields of the American West. These determined and adventurous women were forces to be reckoned with as they faced countless hardships and harsh conditions in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska.
This book recounts the amazing stories of eleven of these women, including Baby Doe Tabor, Nellie Cashman, Gertrude Peckwith, and Lillian Malcolm.
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