"This is the fascinating story of Howard E.
About the Author: Historian KENNETH Baxter Ragsdale is the author of The Year America Discovered Texas Centennial \'36, published by Texas A&M University Press, as well as several other books and articles in Texas history..
Color and authenticity come from the author\'s interviews with such individuals as Robert Cartledge, who for nearly three decades worked as store clerk, purchasing agent, and finally general manager of the Chisos Mining Company in Terlingua.
Based on many primary sources, Quicksilver is solidly researched and historically sound.
Perry, who built a hilltop mansion overlooking the dry domain.
This study, available again in a redesigned paperback edition, examines the Company town and its feudal lord, Chicago industrialist Howard E.
Goetzmann Before Terlingua achieved some notoriety as the site of the annual World Championship Chili Cookoff, the ghost town was the bustling center of the mercury Mining industry in the United States.
Ragsdale\'s Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company is perhaps the best book written on the Big Bend country."--William H.
Perry and his Terlingua fiefdom on the edge of Big Bend National Park. "This is the fascinating story of Howard E
