Women’s History Highlight: A Beautiful Mine

All through Women’s History Month, we’ll share relevant books from our shop. First up is “A Beautiful Mine, Women Prospectors of the Old West” by Chriss Enss. Though most of us think of prospectors like the gentlemen on the left, people of all sorts came west during the gold rush! Get this book to learn more.

Image description: The cover of the book mentioned in the post, depicting a drawing of an old man in a tan shirt and whitish hat with a long white beard sitting in front of a machine to help him pan for gold. He is looking at a young woman in a bluish dress wearing a floppy tan hat and holding up a large chunk of gold ore.

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