Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960: Mining Camp, Frontier City, Ghost Town (Second Edition)

By Clifford Alpheus Shaw

This expanded Second Edition of Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 chronicles the history of one of Nevada's earliest and most important mining boomtowns. It is a reference-oriented book, which includes hundreds of edited and annotated newspaper clippings and other firsthand accounts about Aurora's buildings, businesses, major mines, social life, Paiute citizens, ghost town days, and final destruction over the entire length of its century-long history. This new edition has 98 additional pages with a new section on violence at Aurora during 1863 and 1864, more information about the Daly gang, complete directories for the boom years 1864, 1880, and 1915, and an annotated list of residents from 1861-1864 and 1880. The book now includes 14 maps and over 200 photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1979848866
• ISBN13: 9781979848862
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.1" x 7.0"