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AURORA, NEVADA’S GHOST CITY OF THE DAWN, by Robert E. Stewart. Enlarged second edition. 144 pages, 7 x 10, illustrated, maps. Color cover. The town of Aurora, 20 miles east of Bridgeport, California, was among Nevada’s largest 19th-century gold mining camps. Author Stewart chronicles stories about the mines and mills, and daily life, as well as Mark Twain’s six-week stay working as a millwright. The author tells of its mines and mills and everyday mining camp life during the turbulent Civil War. 144 pages.
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