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Boomtimes Again: Twentieth-Century Mining in the Mojave Desert

A page from a 1912 newspaper, the Tonopah Miner.

A page from a 1912 newspaper, the Tonopah Miner.

Citation Information: Excerpt from “Tonopah Miner, July 20, 1912,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/b61568af33c7755b3daf9e2833ef76dc.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries via Mountain West Digital Library.

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A page from a 1912 newspaper, the Tonopah Miner.

A 1906 document listing taxpayers in Tonopah, Nevada.

A 1957 letter from a former mining employee to a friend in Trona, California, describing memories of working in Goldfield, Nevada.

A photograph of a twenty-mule team used to transport metals and minerals prior to the development of railroads in the Mojave Desert.

A 1925 photograph of magnesium bagged for transport by train near Death Valley, California.

An excerpt from a 1915 booklet called “Borax the Magic Crystal.”

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