The Prospector, and the Silver Queen

This is the story of Nicholas C. Creede, the prospector who struck silver in Colorado and became one of the most legendary figures of the American frontier. Born on the wild frontier, Creede learns to hunt and survive before the land even finishes making him. He moves west as the mining boom transforms the country, driven by a hunger that the promise of silver only sharpens. Cy Warman captures the brutal poetry of the frontier: the dust, the danger, the constant gamble between fortune and death. This isn't a romanticized western. It's a raw account of what it cost to dig wealth from the earth, and what the earth gave back in return. For readers who want to understand the fever that built the West, and the men who caught it.