Frontier Women

~Silvia Anne Sheafer - 62 pgs

One of the finest hours for American women were the turbulent years dominating the second half of the ninteenth century. Across the country change was occuring. People were on the move, ideas were being tested, and the gold rush brought America into a new era. The gold rush helped change everything in California, and along side thehusbands were the women who helped change the age. They helped scetch a standard of morals and manners in a wild turbulent time and this book includes many of their stories as well as the history of women's position in the gold rush.

Price: $6.95

Soiled Doves

~Anne Seagraves - 175 pgs

Prospectors, miner's stock promoters. gamblers, roughs and law-men, anachists and others converged upon Goldfield, America's last great gold rush. The city which rapidly emerged after 1902 revitalized the depressed state of mining throughout the West. This book tells of the story of the lives, hopes, loves, and dilemmas of ordinary people as well as the nabobs who could wager a fortune on the turn of a roulette wheel.

Price: $12.95