Pioneering in Territorial Silver City
author: Ailman, H. B.; edited by Lundwall, W. D.
source date: 1983
availability: rights_reserved

The memoirs of H. B. Ailman, an early Silver City merchant and civic leader who arrived in the 1870s. His first-hand account covers the town's early mercantile economy, Apache depredations, vigilante justice, the rise of the mining industry, and the transition from a raw frontier outpost to an established community. Published posthumously from Ailman's original journals.