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Mining - Memoirs:

Lied, Jonas . PROSPECTOR IN SIBERIA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JONAS LIED
NY 1945 1st Oxford. Harcover. Octavo, 318pp., line drawings, large foldout map at end, index, cloth. VG, no DJ. (a14541)
$28.00 (atomic energy) . PRELIMINARY RECONNAISSANCE FOR URANIUM IN MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA, 1952 TO 1956 BY GRAND JUNCTION OFFICE, AEC AND US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Washington 1970 Atomic Energy Commission. RME-158, TID UC-51. 4to., 169pp., maps, wraps. Institution name stamps and ink numbers on cover and title. VG. (a49108)
$75.00 Dwyer, Richard A. and Richard E. Lingenfelter . YING ON THE EASTERN SLOPE, JAMES TOWNSEND'S COMIC JOURNALISM ON THE MINING FRONTIER
Miami 1984 University Presses of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-0780-1. A scholarly work which makes lively reading. California and Nevada mining-camp newspapermen were itinerant, impecunious, imaginative and sometimes vitriolic...contemporaries and predecessors of Mark Twain and Bret Harte."-Sonnichsen quoted on jacket. Fine in Good DJ, rubbed. (a81223)
$27.00