Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Early Snake River Boom -- 2 The Black Sands Craze -- 3 The Burroughs Brothers -- 4 Pierce -- 5 Florence -- 6 Elk City and Newsome -- 7 Stanley Basin and Yankee Fork -- 8 Salmon City and Leesburg -- 9 South and Middle Forks of the Boise River -- 10 The Yukon Dredge -- 11 Warren -- 12 Boise Basin -- 13 Dredging Rare Metals -- 14 Other Dredge Grounds and Snake-Salmon Rivers -- 15 The Struggle for Dredge Control -- 16 Aftermath: The Cleanup -- 17 Overview -- Epilogue -- Brief Bibliographic Essay -- Index
Summary
"A revolution in placer mining from inception in the 1880s until its demise in the 1960s and its impact on Idaho, the nation's fourth leading producer of dredged gold which provides a lens through which to observe the practice and history of gold dredging around the world."
