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Statement of Purpose: Access to datasets, essays, publications and links in the fields of colonial Latin American economic history and Western United States mining history.

Data Files: Colonial Latin American datasets on commodity prices, mineral production, agricultural tithes, commercial exchange and royal finances.

Caja Page: Royal treasury accounts from more than 70 cajas in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru, compiled by John TePaske, Herbert Klein et al. plus the TePaske Page with access to gold and silver series compiled by Tepaske.

Comstock (NV): Fully annotated study of Comstock gold and silver mining from 1865 to 1885, based on research in company and public archives with accompanying datasets on gold and silver production, mining and milling costs, wages and hours, ore hoists, etc.

Publications, In Print and On-Line: PDF files of printed publications and recently completed on-line essays by Richard Garner and other scholars.

Links: Other sites with datasets, reviews, announcements, publications, maps, photographs, etc.

Bibliography: On-line access to nearly 3,000 titles of secondary works published since 1945 mainly on the economic history of Latin American, Western Europe, United States between 1500 and 1900.

Format: Essays are written in Microsoft Word and converted to pdf files that require Acrobat Reader, and datasets are formatted in Microsoft Excel, except for Caja files, the majority of which are text ("tab delimited") files that can be converted to other programs and a few of which are Microsoft Excel files. To download click on the underlined file title.

Contributions: Contributions from other researchers of data files and working papers are welcome. Write to the e-mail address below.

Email address: richardgarner04@comcast.net

For more information about Richard Garner, go to www.insidemydesk.com