Gold

<p><span class="deck">Granddaddy of all desert mining discoveries was the Comstock Lode, which sent the Far West on a silver stampede to Nevada’s Washoe country a century ago.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Underschooled and ill-equipped, the men who attended the pioneers practiced a rugged brand of medicine—but they made some major advances all the same</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Klondike Photographs of Clarke and Clarence Kinsey</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The saga of Kip Wagner, the first modern American to grow rich from ancient Spanish treasure</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> California has always been as much a state of mind as a geographical entity. For the better part of two centuries, artists have been defining its splendid promise.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Solid-gold coins were legal tender for most of the nation's history. In their brilliant surfaces we can see our past fortunes.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the Yukon with G. C. Hazelet</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The author leads a search for hidden treasure in the amazingly complete documentary history of a California ghost town.</span></p>

<p>A century and a half of the U.S. economy, from the railroad revolution to the information revolution</p>