2012, Leather
384 pages
Dimensions: 8.25 by 10 in.
$180.00
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| Collecting Arizona Leather Edition! |
State of Mines, Legacy of Minerals
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 Language: English
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Contributions by: Tony Potucek, Les Presmyk, Richard Graeme, others
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Edited by: Terry C. Wallace with Gloria A. Staebler, Ray Grant, Suzanne Liebetrau, Tom Wilson
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Illustrations by: Jeff Scovil, the Van Pelts, Dean Hueber, Jesse La Plante, Dwight Hanson
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100 copies of our acclaimed Collecting Arizona were bound in full grain calf (this is not composite leather). The book was published in association with Arizonas 2012 Centennial; the handsome leather edition is a wonderful library edition of this lavishly illustrated volume.
From its earliest days as a territory when prospectors searched for gold and silver to the giant copper camps of the twentieth century to today when Tucson is a mecca for mineral collectors worldwide, the historical fabric of Arizona is woven with minerals.
The book endeavors to provide a sense of the people, places, and times that spawned the states mineral discoveries. It begins with a geologic overview, but the story is more a history than a scientific treatise and is divided into chapters, each covering a distinct era beginning with the pre-Territorial period when missionaries, soldiers, and prospectors made the earliest inroads into the uncharted Pimería Alta, which would become southern Arizona.
“Collecting Arizona” is a Centennial tribute to the states legacy of mineral specimens; to those who spent time digging, documenting, and preserving that legacy; and to the great State of Arizona, which is built on its minerals and its mines.
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