R. Bruce Craig is an independent historian and biographer. A
former national park ranger and second winner of the prestigious
Freeman Tilden Award for Outstanding National Park Interpretation
(1982), Craig also served as Northeast Regional Director of
National Parks Conservation Association, and in stints as Executive
Director of the Association of National Park Cooperating
Associations (now Association of Partners for Public Lands), the
National Parks Trust, and the National Coalition for History. Today
he lives in Atlantic Canada, where he teaches American History at
the University of Prince Edward Island.
Craig is the editor of the fiftieth anniversary edition of Freeman
Tilden's classic work, Interpreting Our Heritage, and author of
Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case and The
Apprenticeship of Alger Hiss.
The historical significance of Ed Schieffelin's life goes well
beyond his Tombstone silver discovery, as demonstrated in this
compelling autobiography, expertly edited and annotated by R. Bruce
Craig."" - Robert M. Utley, author of A Life Wild and Perilous:
Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
""Portrait of a Prospector engagingly illuminates the life of a
particular U.S. frontier type, the gold and silver prospector of
the late nineteenth century West, and adds to our understanding of
the prospecting culture of the era. Ed Schieffelin's account is
especially revealing as the story of a man who started prospecting
at ten years old and did not stop until his death, a man who
learned to go his own way rather than follow the rushes."" - Paula
Mitchell Marks, author of Precious Dust: The North American Gold
Rush Era, 1848 - 1900
""What makes Portrait of a Prospector worth reading is that it is
derived directly from Schieffelin's memoirs... [the book] is well
worth reading from an Alaskan historical perspective, because
Schieffelin's frank observations constitute a valuable contribution
about how mainly indigenous people lived in the lower Yukon River
basin the 1880s."" - Tom Bundtzen, Alaska History
""Collecting the words of an exceptional figure who embodied the
western frontier, Craig offers readers insight into the mentality
of prospector adventures during an age of discovery and limitless
potential."" - Mary Beth Jones, Book Beat
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