Mining

<p><span class="deck">Granddaddy of all desert mining discoveries was the Comstock Lode, which sent the Far West on a silver stampede to Nevada’s Washoe country a century ago.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Underschooled and ill-equipped, the men who attended the pioneers practiced a rugged brand of medicine—but they made some major advances all the same</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> They had no chair lifts, and they called their skis snowshoes, but they were the fastest men alive</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Idaho mine war broke into flame in 1892 and cast a glare with very long shadows</span> </span></p>

<p>Western miners, the hard-rock stiffs, were as tough and horny-handed a breed of men as any in the world.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Man, Land, and History in the Deepest Gorge on Earth</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BLOOD FLOWED IN THE PERENNIALLY TROUBLESOME COALFIELDS IN 1921, WHEN THOUSANDS OF MINERS DECIDED THEIR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> U-Boom on the Colorado Plateau</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">When copper-country miners went on strike, the owners brought thugs from the slums of New York to northern Michigan. The struggle led to an event that killed a city.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The author leads a search for hidden treasure in the amazingly complete documentary history of a California ghost town.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Poisoned, ruined, and self-cannibalized, this city is still the grandest of all boomtowns.</span></p>