Prospectors, Hydraulickers and Hard Rock Men: Life on the Western Mining Frontier 1848-1920
FAIN: GM-*0704-81
Western Museum of Mining and Industry (Col Springs, CO 80921-7100)
Peter M. Molloy (Project Director: August 1980 to October 1990)
To support planning for a permanent exhibit on the working lives of the men and women who settled the mining districts of the American West in the 19th and early 20th centuries and on the impact of mining technology on their lives and the countryside.