Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company

by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale

Before Terlingua achieved some notoriety as the site of the annual World Championship Chili Cookoff, the ghost town was the bustling center of the mercury mining industry in the United States. Quicksilver tells the story of the company town and its feudal lord, Chicago industrialist Howard E. Perry, who built a hilltop mansion overlooking the dry domain. Based on many primary sources, this solidly researched and historically sound book tells of profit,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890960135
• ISBN13: 9780890960134
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"