January 17, 2026
Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan A History of British Columbia’s Silver Rush
Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan A History of British Columbia’s Silver Rush | 119.07 MB
Title: Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan
Author: Peter Smith
Category: Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century, Americas, Canada
Language: English | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1772035394
Description:
Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan tells the often-overlooked story of British Columbia’s silver rush and its accompanying boom towns. In the 1890s, mining camps like Sandon, Three Forks, Whitewater and their neighbours, New Denver, Silverton, Slocan City, Kaslo and Nakusp, thrived. Prospectors and miners from Idaho, Montana, and other mining centres arrived in droves to reap the silver harvest. Capitalists flooded in from Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver, and from investment centres across North America and the world.
At its height, the silver rush ushered in a frenzy of activity, where "cities" sprang up out of nowhere, cultures clashed, greed and racism prevailed, law and order was a matter of perspective, and yet, somehow, people still united in song, dance, and a spirit of community. Although the boom era was short-lived-as plummeting silver prices, labour disputes, natural disasters, and the discovery of Klondike gold severely dampened the spirits of…
Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan tells the often-overlooked story of British Columbia’s silver rush and its accompanying boom towns. In the 1890s, mining camps like Sandon, Three Forks, Whitewater and their neighbours, New Denver, Silverton, Slocan City, Kaslo and Nakusp, thrived. Prospectors and miners from Idaho, Montana, and other mining centres arrived in droves to reap the silver harvest. Capitalists flooded in from Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver, and from investment centres across North America and the world.
At its height, the silver rush ushered in a frenzy of activity, where "cities" sprang up out of nowhere, cultures clashed, greed and racism prevailed, law and order was a matter of perspective, and yet, somehow, people still united in song, dance, and a spirit of community. Although the boom era was short-lived-as plummeting silver prices, labour disputes, natural disasters, and the discovery of Klondike gold severely dampened the spirits of…
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