In 1865, William Buck Dana, working a bold new departure in American journalism, established the nation's first business weekly, the "Commercial and Financial Chronicle," in the country's commercial nerve center, New York City. As its publisher and editor, he became the nation's most influential reporter and commentator on business and finance, playing a major role in creating a national and international economy. Unequaled as a comprehensive and reliable source of business news, Dana's "Chronicle" has become a critical source for studying 19th century business history. This book is a...

Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today as a silver-mining ghost town, Calico, CA outlived the silver era when borax was discovered in its hills. Supplying Borax worldwide--employing the twenty mule teams still associated with Twenty-Mule Team Borax--the Calico mines played a pivotal role in the evolution of the less glamorous industry, borax mining. Correcting the image sold to tourists, Steeples provides a tight geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of Calico, a once thriving community struggling to survive in primitive conditions. He tells the tale...