Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Frontier Prospecting, First Edition

Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.

Author: Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: 06/05/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780762770649
ISBN10: 0762770643
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- History | United States | 19th Century

About the Author
Matthew P. Mayo is a Spur Award- and Peacemaker Award-nominated writer whose novels include the Westerns Winters' War; Wrong Town; Hot Lead, Cold Heart; and Dead Man's Ranch. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books include Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears; Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks; and Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers (all Globe Pequot Press). He haunts the web at matthewmayo.com.