{"product_id":"the-lost-cement-mine","title":"The Lost Cement Mine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book contains the original story of the Lost Cement Gold Mine \"somewhere on the headwaters of the Owens River \" exactly as published in the San Francisco Daily Evening Post in the fall of 1879. Included in this volume are historic maps and accounts of Monoville and Mammoth City mining camps  along with Mark Twains story of his midnight expedition to locate the legendary mine (accompanied by drawings from the 1872 first edition of Roughing It). Among hundred-year-old files of the San Francisco Daily Evening Post  Richard Lingefelter discovered this story of the Lost Cement Mine by James W. A. Wright. Wright wrote his account in the fall of 1879  after a summer visit to Mono Countys mining camps in eastern California. Wrights report is partly hearsay  partly a day-by-day account of the country he traveled between Monoville and Mammoth City. So detailed are his descriptions that you can locate today many of the places he wrote about more than a hundred years ago. For example  you can easily follow his route up Red Mountain  south of Mammoth City  to the top of his \"highest gray granite peak.\" There you can enjoy the same magnificent views that enthralled him on the eighth of July  1879  and that he wrote about at length in the Introductory. Exclusive to this edition are three historic maps  additional notes  Mark Twains full account of the Cement Mine  and Nina Kelleys dramatic illustrations. Perhaps  one day  somewhere on the headwaters of the Owens River  you too may hear the tap! tap! tap! of a prospectors hammer  just as Wright did over a hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945130422325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0931378095","price":91.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780931378096_1fc6fdf9-33e2-480c-a688-02ec3a98ecc3.jpg?v=1770154415","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-lost-cement-mine","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}