C.A. Earle Rinker's reminiscences of mining and assaying life in Goldfield, Nevada, in the first decade of the 1900s. He recalls two different shootings, drilling contests, water use by the local hotels and a 1907 influenza epidemic.
Rinker discusses photographs taken in Nevada during his mining years and his planned autobiography. Also mentions artifacts that were moved to Scotty's Castle ((Death Valley National Park).