Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: The Spanish Explorers; Gold Rush to California, Beginning of a Settlement, Gold Fever Strikes; Gold is Found; Gold Fever; Spreads; Clark, Gruber and Co; Already on the Western Front; Gold Finds in the Mountains; Money in a Mining Camp; Plans for a Mint; Two Small Towns -- Side by Side, 1860; The Mint Opens; Gold Coins and Paper Money; The View of an Eastern Visitor, 1861; Mr Clark Goes to Washington; Congress; Votes to Buy Clark, Gruber and Co; Robbery, Flood, and Indian Uprising; The Denver Mint; The Silver West; Plans for a New Mint; Denver -- a City Emerging; The Building; Coinage; The Second Mint Robbery; Federal Bank; Truck Raided at Mint; Bullion Transfer; Pennies and Nickels; Go to War; Additions to the Building; A Special Collection; Queen City of the Plains; Coinage Today; Process of Making a Coin; The Grand Hall; Gold Bullion; The Numismatic Room; The Sweeps Cellar.
