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Lost Bonanzas Harry Sinclair Drago 1966 Bramhall House HC DJ Lost Mines West:
$22.99
Lost Bonanzas: Tales of the Legendary Lost Mines of the American West Somewhere out in the desert, the story goes, there is a ledge of gold that a dying prospector described once and no one has found since. Lost Bonanzas is Harry Sinclair Drago's hard-eyed, affectionate tour through the great lost-mine legends of the American West: the Lost Dutchman in the Superstitions, the Breyfogle, the Gunsight, the Peg Leg, the lost Adams diggings, and a dozen more tales that sent men out into country that killed them. Drago was one of the most prolific and readable historians of the frontier, and he treats each legend the way a good reporter would, tracing where the story started, who carried it, what the record actually supports, and what almost certainly never happened at all. The result is both a genuine piece of western history and a wonderful read, dense with prospectors, boom camps, Apache country, and the particular kind of hope that keeps a man digging. This is the 1966 Bramhall House hardcover, published by arrangement with Dodd, Mead & Company, complete in its illustrated dust jacket with the author's photograph and biography on the rear flap. 📚 Book Details - 🏢 Publisher: Bramhall House, New York (a division of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.), published by arrangement with Dodd, Mead & Company
- 📅 Year: 1966 (copyright MCMLXVI); Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-20451
- 📄 Format: Hardcover in original illustrated dust jacket, 267 pages, with bibliography and index
- 🔖 ISBN: None. This title predates the ISBN system
- 📖 Edition: Bramhall House edition, printing sequence reading a b c d e f g h. Not represented as a first printing
- ✅ Best For: Western Americana collectors, lost-mine and treasure-hunting readers, Arizona and California mining history, homeschool American West studies, and anyone who loves a well-told frontier legend
📋 Condition: Like New - ⚠️ Faint age yellowing to the inner face of the rear dust jacket flap
- ✅ Dust jacket present and graded pristine in hand: complete at both flaps, not price-clipped, crisp folds, bright unfaded color
- ✅ Cloth boards square and intact beneath the jacket; binding tight
- ✅ No writing, highlighting, or underlining anywhere
- ✅ No library markings of any kind: no labels, stamps, card pocket, date-due slip, or barcode
- ✅ Complete at 267 pages with bibliography and index intact
Graded in hand by Papa Duck: Like New, with the jacket itself pristine. 🦆 📦 Ships via USPS Media Mail · 📍 Gresham, Oregon · Questions welcome — we respond promptly and pack with care.
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