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MS BOOK AND MINERAL COMPANY Biographies and Autobiographies This page was updated on 10 March 2008When ordering please refer to this catalog #:
Bimson, W. R. / LOUIS D. RICKETTS (1859 -1940): Mining Engineer, Geologist, Banker, Industrialist, and Builder of America, New York, 1949, pb, 32 pages, - 3 -, $ 15 [Publication of Newcomen Society of England in North America fostering American - British traditions / ideas in Arts & Sciences] Campbell, M. and Hatton, H. / HERBERT H. DOW: Pioneer in Creative Chemistry, New York, 1951, cl, 168 pages, - 3 -, $ 25 Erwin, A. A. / THE SOUTHWEST OF JOHN HORTON SLAUGHTER: Cattleman, Sheriff (of Cochise County, Arizona), Spokane, 1997, cl, 368 pages, - 1 -, $ 25 Fairbanks, H. R. and Berkey, C. P. / LIFE AND LETTERS OF R. A. F. PENROSE, JR., New York, 1952, cl, 765 pages, - 3 -, $ 25 Hammond, J. H. / THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HAYS HAMMOND illustrated with photographs, in two volumes, 813 pages total, - 3 -, $ 55 [Engineer, Gold, Mexico, Africa, Rhodesia, London, Russia, Grass Valley, Couer d’Alene, Guggenheim Exploration Company, more....] Makley, M. J. / THE INFAMOUS KING OF THE COMSTOCK - WILLIAM SHARON AND THE GUIDED AGE IN THE WEST - A Biography, Reno, 2006, cl, 291 pages, - 1 -, $ 33 Noel, T. J. and Norman, C. M. / A
PIKE’S PEAK PARTNERSHIP: The Penroses and the Tutts, Boulder, 2000, cl, 264
pages, - 1 -, $ 35 Older, F. / MR. AND MRS. GEORGE HEARST: California Pioneer, Los Angeles, 1966, cl, 240 pages, - 3 -, $ 45 Pyne, S. J. / GROVE KARL GILBERT: A GREAT ENGINE OF RESEARCH, Austin, 1980, cl, 306 pages, - 2 -, $ 18 [Gilbert was an explorer, theoretician, experimentalist, and methodologist] Roberts, R. J. / A PASSION FOR GOLD: An Autobiography, Reno, 2002, cl, 232 pages, - 1 -, $ 30 Scamehorn, H. L. / ALBERT EUGENE REYNOLDS: Colorado’s Mining King, Norman, 1995, 308 pages, cl, - 1 -, $ 15 [Covers the life of a man destined to make a fortune thought to be as much as $60 million as the owner of the Palmetto Mine near Lake City, the Virginius and Revenue Tunnel near Ouray, the Cimarron Mine at Telluride, and the Commodore Mine at Creede, eventually managing 600 claims on 6,000 acres of mineral land] Smith, D.A. / HENRY M. TELLER: Colorado’s Grand Old Man, Boulder, 2002, cl, 252 pages, - 1 -, $ 30 Smith, D. A. / HORACE TABOR: His Life and the Legend, Boulder, 1989, pb, 395 pages, - 1 -, $ 20 Sparks, B. / BOOT STRAPS: The Autobiography of Tom M. Girdler, New York, 1944, cl, 471 pages, sun fading on spine, ovg, - 3 -, $ 25 [Republic Steel] Tyson, C. N., Thomas, J. N., and Faulk, O. B. / THE McMAN: THE LIVES OF ROBERT M. McFARLIN AND JAMES A. CHAPMAN, Norman, 1977, cl, 224 pages, - 2 -, $ 20 [They developed the largest independent oil company in Oklahoma] Waters, F. / MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES: Biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, Croesus of Cripple Creek, Athens, 1972, 347 pages, - 1 -, $ 16 Winkler, J. K. / THE DuPONT DYNASTY, Babson Park, 1935, cl, 342 pages, - 3 -, chip on front end-plate, ovg, $ 25 |
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