Arizona's Golden Road Charles H. Dunning

Description: Arizona's Golden Road contains seventeen short stories about the desert - the miners and prospectors - of yesteryear whose exploits made the most colorful chapter in the history of the Southwest. Clambering up step mountain trails, bumping over rutted roads in a model T, waiting for chow in a boarding house with miners just off shift and hungry, the author gathered his material at first hand over the course of mire than half a century. There is a foundation of fact behind each of these yarns. Along the golden road the author leads you from the sun-baked adobes on the desert along the Mexican border to the high plateaus of the Indian country, from the biggest mining camps to the just-staked claims in the rugged mountains. He shares with you the humor, the tragedies, the defeats and the victories and dreams of the travelers he has just met along the golden road. Caught in flash floods, trapped in mine workings, surprised in shady deals, or in kind deeds, they were a breed such as the world never knew before the gold fever hit the West, probably will never appear again. In this book Charles H. Dunning has built a lasting monument to them and their way of life. But it matters not at all whether the reader be conversant with mining, these are stories of human beings - gentle, violent, lazy, comic, sad, - whose universal humanity became all the more discernible because of the circumstances in which they played their colorful roles.

Price: 14.85 USD

Location: San Diego, California

End Time: 2025-01-20T20:51:27.000Z

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