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Tailings or Treasure: The Mears Wilfley Mill
Genre: NONFICTION > Literary Non-Fiction

Tailings or Treasure: The Mears Wilfley Mill

Douglas Thayer
Role: Author

This work is Douglas R. Thayer’s account of Otto Mears and Arthur Wilfley, who built a mill on the Animas River to process tailings from the Silver Lake mines in Silverton, Colorado.

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