Author: GLASSCOCK, C. B.
Title: The War of the Copper Kings: Builders of Butte and the Wolves of Wall Street
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Hardcover. A 1971 reprint edition of a work first published in 1935 by Bobbs-Merrill. A casual 1863 discovery of gold in a creek at present-day Butte, Montana led to a gold and silver mining frenzy there, and eventually the discovery of much richer lodes of copper ore in the region. This work tells of the tumultuous events in the area: ".more than one hundred murders, more than a score of hangings without the process of law, more than two billion dollars in material wealth.battles of giants in the depths of the earth and in the capital of the nation." With several scattered black & white photos. --- In olive green and white linen-finish paper-covered boards with cover & spine titling in brown; brown topstain. Volume wrapped in copper-toned jacket with crown image to front panel. --- With prior owner's embossed circular stamp to title page, mostly removed bookplate to front paste-down, else a sound, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chafing to spine ends and a little rubbing and scratching, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; ix, (9), 18-314 pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>History of Colorado & the Old West
Title: The War of the Copper Kings: Builders of Butte and the Wolves of Wall Street
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Hardcover. A 1971 reprint edition of a work first published in 1935 by Bobbs-Merrill. A casual 1863 discovery of gold in a creek at present-day Butte, Montana led to a gold and silver mining frenzy there, and eventually the discovery of much richer lodes of copper ore in the region. This work tells of the tumultuous events in the area: ".more than one hundred murders, more than a score of hangings without the process of law, more than two billion dollars in material wealth.battles of giants in the depths of the earth and in the capital of the nation." With several scattered black & white photos. --- In olive green and white linen-finish paper-covered boards with cover & spine titling in brown; brown topstain. Volume wrapped in copper-toned jacket with crown image to front panel. --- With prior owner's embossed circular stamp to title page, mostly removed bookplate to front paste-down, else a sound, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chafing to spine ends and a little rubbing and scratching, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; ix, (9), 18-314 pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>History of Colorado & the Old West
Price: US$ 24.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86449
- Book number: 86449