Richard Francaviglia visited all of America’s major mining districts over the last thirty years. A historical geographer and architectural historian, he is professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington and director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography. He is also the author of Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America, winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distinguished books in American geography.