The Many Lives of the Lynx: a Century of Mining on Lynx Creek Between 1863 and 1963

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1964. Octavo. Revised Edition. xii, 215 pages, map on endpapers. Bibliographic references (pages 199-215). The Lynx was situated in the mining region between Walker and Poland in the heart of the highly mineralized Bradshaw Mountains, with the creek itself a tributary of the Hassayampa River, a veritable synonym for gold. First discovered and mined by the Walker Party in 1863, the district has been worked over again and again by gold seekers, and still a favorite weekend spot for mineralogists and nugget-hunters. Lynx Creek was and is the heart of the Arizona mountain and mineral belt. and florid history. Potter's treatment is one of critical but moderate narration, with greatest attention of course paid to the claims, mines, mills, and smelters which once dotted the area, and on the other hand to reminiscences of old-timers which are found nowhere else. The earlier edition was only 165 pages and had a two-page index. Fortunately, Northland Press agreed to print an expanded edition in the same year with a 11-page index (the earlier version had two pages). A fine copy bound in blue cloth, spine lettering silver, endpapers are maps, in a fine unclipped dust jacket of one of the most scarce books on Arizona mines.