Grass Valley, CA: Comstock Bonanza Press, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second volume in this history of Nevada County during its exciting and tumultuos mining days, when the three largest cities in California were San Francisco, Sacramento and Nevada City. Includes the stories of Tallman Rolfe, a young printer and apostate Mormon, of Charles Mulford, a prospector who opened a bookstore in Nevada City - both of whom married their hometown sweethearts and brought them West. Also includes an account of Lola Montez, who settled for a while in Grass Valley. In researching this book, the author had access to more than 1000 letters, many written by the young women who would become the brides and…
Grass Valley, CA: Comstock Bonanza Press, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second volume in this history of Nevada County during its exciting and tumultuos mining days, when the three largest cities in California were San Francisco, Sacramento and Nevada City. Includes the stories of Tallman Rolfe, a young printer and apostate Mormon, of Charles Mulford, a prospector who opened a bookstore in Nevada City - both of whom married their hometown sweethearts and brought them West. Also includes an account of Lola Montez, who settled for a while in Grass Valley. In researching this book, the author had access to more than 1000 letters, many written by the young women who would become the brides and wives. SIGNED by the author on the first page. The first edition was limited to 2000 copies. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. xvi, 440 pp. plus colophon. ISBN: 0-933994052.
El Paso, TX Texas Western Press / The University of Texas at El Paso, (1993). First edition - Biography of Irish-born Nellie Cashman (1850-1925) who, after arriving in Boston in the 1860s, soon went West and became a prospector and boarding house proprietor in mining towns ranging from Californian to Nevada to Tombstone, Arizona, . She was the first Caucasian woman to trek British Columbia's rugged Cassiar Mountain region and half a century later was the first woman to fly there in an airplane. Southwestern Studies No. 98. Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout,Notes, bibliography. xii, 83 pp. ISBN: 0-87404-1945.
BRIDES OF THE GOLD RUSH: The Nevada County Chronicles 1851-1859.
NELLIE CASHMAN: Prospector and Trailblazer.
