Nevada Rawhide (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. pp: (1) text, (41) views from photographs with captions, (1) portrait of Ned E. Johnson (photographer), folding panorama bound in at back. The one-page text, "Rawhide," is by F.W. Clark, Pacific Coast Agent. Bound in pictorial green wrappers. Private bookplate inside cover, otherwise in fine condition. 8" x 10.5" [Eberstadt 132:506, "the most phenomenal gold camp the world has ever known."] This is a high-quality 1970s reprint of the rare 1908 edition.

Engraved letterhead of "The Semloh" hotel, Salt Lake City, dated December 9, 1921. To an unnamed associate in Hawthorne, Nevada, enclosing a check and discussing the payment of taxes due on some properties in Idaho and Nevada, including Rawhide, and touting a new project "in Idaho that is a cinch", the "Big Gold" mine, "the stock is sure to go up". "I often think of old Hawthorne (county seat of Mineral County, Nevada - Grutt had served there as sheriff) and the pleasant years I spent there. I am coming back next summer for awhile at least.Regards to my friends in the Court House." Eugene Grutt came early to Rawhide and had a big part in the development of the town and major stakes in several mines. With a carbon of his associate's typed response, five lines, and "Everybody here about the same as usual". Three pages on three sheets, plus one page carbon. In Fine condition.