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Treasure from the Painted Hills : A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
Treasure from the Painted Hills A History of Calico California 18821907 - Contributions in Economics and Economic History Author:Douglas Steeples Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today as a silver-mining ghost town, Calico, CA outlived the silver era when borax was discovered in its hills. Supplying Borax worldwide--employing the twenty mule teams still associated with Twenty-Mule Team Borax--the Calico mines played a pivotal role in the evolution of the less glamorous ind... more »ustry, Borax mining. Correcting the image sold to tourists, Steeples provides a tight geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of Calico. He tells the tale of three Calicos: the silver-mining town, the borax-mining center, and the ghost town, providing a masterful history of regional silver mining and national borax mining, processing, and marketing.« less