May 18th, 2007

My research on the new book about women miners of the Old West took me to Tonopah, Nevada today. I spent time poring over information about a tenacious prospector named Ellen Nay. On March 31, 1909, she discovered a 75 pound boulder full of gold at the base of the Sugarloaf Mountains near Salsbury Washington, Nevada. “Oh, Lord,” she proclaimed after learning about the depth of her discovery, “I never supposed there was so much gold in the world.”