Has anyone seen “Thompson’s Complete Guide to the New Gold Regions”?
![Francis M. Thompson [no date]](https://chinookjargon.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/francis-m-thompson.jpg?w=620)
Francis M. Thompson (1833-1916) (image credit: MTHistoryRevealed)
It was published the same year as George Gibbs’s influential vocabulary, so I’m guessing it’s based on sources independent of him.
The title is:
(Apparently the same guy wrote “A Tenderfoot in Montana”, which might be interesting to us as well. For sure, a fair bit is known about his life; he designed the state seal of Montana Territory and once he was even a bridesmaid!)
More info on “Thompson’s Complete Guide”, from Worldcat:
Author: Francis M Thompson
Publisher: St. Louis : Published by R.P. Studley, for H.M. Thompson, 1863.
Series: Western Americana, frontier history of the trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900, reel 532, no. 5361.
Edition/Format: Book Microform : Microfilm : Master microform : EnglishView all editions and formatsSubjects
Gold mines and mining — Northwest, Pacific.
Gold mines and mining.
Pacific Northwest.Library Held formats Distance
1.
Washington State University
Holland and Terrell LibrariesPullman, WA 99164 United States
Microform
68 miles
2.
University of Idaho Library
Moscow, ID 83844 United States
Microform
70 miles
3.
University of Montana, Mansfield Library
Missoula, MT 59812 United States
Microform
4.
University of Washington Libraries
Seattle, WA 98195 United States
Microform
5.
Montana Historical Society Library
Helena, MT 59620 United States
Microform not held; 1 other formats
6.Lewis & Clark College
Aubrey R. Watzek LibraryPortland, OR 97219 United States
Several of those are day-trip distance from my Spokane base — but Covid-19 means I probably can’t visit them any time soon!