Maria E Brower: 2 books
by Maria E. Brower
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Nevada County is webbed with some of the richest veins of goldbearing quartz in the world. First discovered in 1849 as placer gold washed into creek beds, hydraulic miners later used massive jets of water to melt mountains and free the precious metal. Rich lodegold districts such as Grass Valley and...
by Maria E. Brower
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Vibrant and captivating Nevada City began as a gold-mining camp called Deer Creek Dry Diggins. The large gravel deposits alongside this creek reportedly delivered a pound of pay dirt a day by the fall of 1849, when A. B. Caldwell�s general store opened to supply this haphazard collection of tents....