{"product_id":"9780803299160","title":"A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950","description":"From the California gold rush through the mid-twentieth century, a special breed of women played an integral and heretofore unrecognized part in some of the most stirring adventures of the pioneer experience-the saintly Nellie Cashman; the copper queen Ferminia Sarras, known for her grand sprees; the former rodeo champion turned prospector; the ex-actress who snowshoed her way to Nome; and many more. A Mine of Her Own tells the definitive story of America's women prospectors for the first time. A few of these women made important discoveries, some enjoyed modest success, and others scratched a lean living. But financial rewards were far from the full measure of the women prospectors. They reveled in the excitement of the mining booms and took pride in surviving in the world beyond the pale. Sally Zanjani depicts more than one hundred women prospectors in often grueling, financially unrewarding, and utterly lonely efforts to strike it rich from the desert Southwest to the frozen rocks of Alaska and the Yukon. She tells their stories with warmth and skill and, in bringing them to life, forever changes our mental picture of the women who helped shape the modern West. Sally Zanjani is adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her books include Goldfield: The Last Gold Rush on the Western Frontier and Ghost Dance Winter and Other Tales of the Nevada Frontier.  ","brand":"UNP - Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011650830576,"sku":"9780803299160","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803299160_p0.jpg?v=1763726089","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803299160","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}