Gold and Silver in the Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier
Nicholas Clapp
187 pages, paperback:
$24.95.
Sunbelt Publications, 2013.
It’s a book of contrasts — a Las Vegas in the days before electricity. A vibrant mining town where today stands only desert. Grizzled prospectors next to voluptuous women. Unimaginable riches in an arid, empty land.
Gold and Silver in the Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier is a collection of historical photographs and detailed research from filmmaker and author Nicholas Clapp. Featuring photographs from sources ranging from a sheriff’s shoebox to negatives found in an abandoned mine shaft, the book tells the story of the Mojave Desert between the 1890s and the 1920s — an era described by the author as the “tumultuous, rowdy last act of the Wild West.”
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Gold and Silver in the Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier: A review.
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