Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold
by Sprague, Marshall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.. xx, 342 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. maps on lining papers. Notes. 'This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63926
- Title
- Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold
- Author
- Sprague, Marshall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Cripple Creek; de la Vergne; Stratton and Company; Womack and Company; Carlton and Company; James Ferguson Burns; Albert Carlton; George Carr; James Doyle; Irving Howbert; Charles MacNeill; Gold Mining; Spencer Penrose; Verner Reed; Robert Womack;
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