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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1937
Page
4
A recent volume retells Panamint’s rise from a comet-lit barren to a wild mining camp. Gunmen and gamblers arrive as silver prospects lure prospectors and legends like J. P. Jones, Bill Stewart, George Hearst and Lucky Baldwin shape a storied frontier town.
Panamint in the California Death Valley region rose as a famed though short lived mining site linked to the era’s gray metal boom. Its rough reputation shaped attitudes toward wealth and risk, seen in Wells Fargo’s refusal to haul its ore and in the scarce enforcement of law officers.
A panorama of Panamint Valley's ghost camp era unfolds with Wells Fargo hesitations, prospectors chasing the Gunsight Lode, and the 1873 formation of a mining district. The narrative follows Richard C. Jacobs W. L. Kennedy and Robert L. Stewart as they glimpse copper and silver ore amid azurite and malachite cliffs.
The article recounts Panamint’s rough Gold Rush era with outlaws Small and McDonald, Wells Fargo action, and a ghost camp aura. It details promoters like E. P. Raines and Senator Jones backing Panamint, the 95 dollar ore, a failed mill, and the town’s rise and crash amid the Silver Seventies.
The private library of Dr. W. D. Westervelt, a renowned authority on Polynesian language and legends, has been turned over to the University of Hawaii for an indefinite loan.
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