" A] fascinating study in the microcosm of the birth, development, and decline of the western mining frontier. Rohrbough] admirably places the changes within the context of half a century of continuous mining excitement that stretched from Sutter's Mill in California in 1848 to the Klondike in 1898." -Choice
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