Gold on the Desert by Olga Wright Smith $50 at Amazon.com
The library might be a good choice.
Thanks for the research on the books, both are worth reading, for history and the fun of it.
The Smith book, is interesting, she was a school teacher in the east and one day her engineer husband said his dad needed him at the mine.
So on the train to Arizona, in the middle of the depression.
LOL, I just remembered that she tells the tale of another neighbor/prospector, who talked to the ground squirrels and swore they talked to him.
At one time, the kids whose burros were rented to haul the rich lapidary ore off the mountain, were known to me, but I forget which they were now.
A woman told me one day when I questioned why she was so glad to have moved back to Wellton, after 16 years, that one day I would understand.
I do now, the people there were fighting to survive and shared all they could, they were real people.