Cinnabar Hills: The Quicksilver Days of New Almaden

" The purpose of this material is to present in a general way, The New Almaden days as a unique mining camp which prospered for the company and provided a favorable standard of living for the miners and their families who were a dedicated group until their hour of departure.....The early years of New Almaden would have been unrecorded were ti not for the first hand, descriptive articles published by Mrs. S.A. Downer in 1854; William V. Wells, 1863; J. Ross Browne, 1865; and Mary Halleck Foote 1877. " -Milton Lanyon and Laurence Bulmore