Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California: Under the Mining Law of Congress, of July 1866

Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a work on American Mining Law in this important re-issue of Yale's famous "Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California". Unavailable since 1867, this publication offers rare insights into the 1866 Mining Act, the forerunner of the 1872 Mining Act. In addition to being considered one of the great masterpieces on the subject of the United States Mining Law, "Legal Title to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California" is a unique work in that was it was written only a year after the first federal law devoted to mining. A one-of-kind book with nearly 500 pages of information on United States Mining Law. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.