Chasing the Glitter
Chasing the Glitter

Author: Richmond L. Clow

Publisher: Historical Preservation Series

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Clow (Native American studies, U. of Montana-Missoula) offers an overview of the gold milling industry in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A miner's geology of the region is followed by discussion of the developing industrial processes that led to each major shift in technology, from the construction of the first mills to the refinement of the blue refractory ores. The book includes abundant b & w illustrations, primarily of the buildings and landscapes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Black Hills Gold Rush Towns
Black Hills Gold Rush Towns

Author: Jan Cerney

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439651299

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Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Black Hills was part of the land reserved for them in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. However, the tide of prospectors seeking their fortune in the Black Hills was difficult to stem. Members of the 1874 Custer expedition, lead by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, found gold. In 1875, scientists Henry Newton and Walter Jenney conducted an expedition and confirmed the rumors. By 1876, the trickle of prospectors and settlers coming to the Black Hills was a flood. The US government realized that keeping the interlopers out was impossible, and in 1877 the Black Hills was officially opened to settlement. In this sequel to their Black Hills Gold Rush Towns book, the authors expand their coverage of Black Hills towns during the gold-rush era.

Black Hills Gold Rush Towns
Black Hills Gold Rush Towns

Author: Jan Cerney

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738577494

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Looks at the mining towns that once flourished in the Black Hills, which had long been the destination for prospectors during the 1874 to 1879 rush, when an unknown numbers of mines were worked and more than 400 mining camps and towns sprang up in the gulches overnight. Original.