Neihart Mining

by R.L. Lansverk

Overview

The route from silver mine to silver dollar could be long and dangerous to the miner, owner, and laborers at every step. It is hard to understand the history without some knowledge of that route. More than simply wagon trails, stream crossings, or buffalo sightings, the route also consisted of people. About half the people who followed a route to populate mining towns were miners; the rest served those who mined, like hotel and boardinghouse operators, lawyers, laborers, assay men, merchants, restaurant servers, lumbermen, store owners,
saloon keepers, or a traveling preacher. Images of America: Neihart Mining presents their history in the camp that "could have been the richest town in Montana."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738596914
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	03/11/2013
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.64(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Author R.L. Lansverk invites you to visit his part-time home and share what it was like walking through muddy, snow-covered, or windblown dusty streets to continue that route from silver mine to silver dollar. Join him as he shares seldom-viewed historical photographs from the History Museum of Great Falls and Cascade County and the photograph archives of Montana Historical Society, along with pioneer family photographs that attest the tough but wonderful route to silver.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Discovery 13

2 Mines, Miners, and Owners 23

3 Merchants and Business 53

4 Trails, Rails, and Roads 73

5 Geology and Scenic Wonders 87

6 Education, Religion, and Family 99

7 Recreation 111

Bibliography 127