TY - BOOK AU - Chalfant,W.A. TI - Gold, guns, & ghost towns PY - 1949/// CY - Stanford PB - Stanford Univ. Press KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - California KW - Nevada KW - Gold discoveries N1 - Cont.: A boy in California in 'forty-nine -- Monoville -- The Lost Cement Mines -- Stories of Bodie -- Bennettville and Lundy -- Stories of Aurora -- The law came late to Pioche -- Hamilton, Columbus and their neighbors -- Mammoth -- Boundary disputes -- Crime and punishment -- Desert rat and Trouble shooter -- Episodes and eloquence of El Dorado -- Tall tales -- Dead mining camps and ghost towns N2 - Stories from the author's "Outposts of civilization" and "Tales of the pioneers." ER -