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Silver Saga
The Story of Caribou, Colorado
Häftad, 2003
384 kr
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Revised and updated, Duane A. Smith's classic study of this important silver mining town is back in print.
Yellowcake Towns
Uranium Mining Communities in the American West
Häftad, 2004
335 kr
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Michael Amundson presents a detailed analysis of the four mining communities at the hub of the twentieth-century uranium booms: Moab, Utah; Grants, New Mexico; Uravan, Colorado; and Jeffrey City, Wyoming. He follows the ups and downs of these "Yellowcake Towns" from uranium's origins as the crucial …
Mining Irish-American Lives
Western Communities from 1849 to 1920
Häftad, 2024
534 kr
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Mining Irish-American Lives focuses on the importance and influence of the Irish within the mining frontier of the American West. Scholarship of the West has largely ignored the complicated lives of the Irish people in mining towns, whose life details are often kept to a bare minimum. This book …
Gambling on Ore
The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 18601910
Av Kent Curtis
Inbunden, 2013
550 kr
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Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant …
Mercury and the Making of California
Mining, Landscape, and Race, 18401890
Inbunden, 2013
596 kr
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Mercury and the Making of California, Andrew Johnston’s multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California’s mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West.Gold and silver could not be …
Santa Rita del Cobre
A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico
Av Christopher J. Huggard, Terrence M. Humble
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans, successively, mined copper for more than 200 years in Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 after an Apache man led the Spanish to the native copper deposits, miners at the site followed industry developments in the nineteenth century to create a network of …
Industrializing the Rockies
Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
Häftad, 2014
284 kr
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The two defining moments of Western coalfield labor relations have been massacres: Wyoming's Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and Colorado's Ludlow Massacre of 1914. But it wasn't just the company guns that were responsible for the deaths of 28 Chinese coal miners and 13 women and children. It was the …
History of Gold Dredging in Idaho
Inbunden, 2016
739 kr
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A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho tells the story of a revolution in placer mining—and its subsequent impact on the state of Idaho—from its inception in the early 1880s until its demise in the early 1960s. Idaho was the nation’s fourth-leading producer of dredged gold after 1910 and therefore …
Eben Smith
The Dean of Western Mining
Inbunden, 2021
418 kr
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David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history. Smith was one of the many fortune seekers who traveled to California during the gold rush and one of the few who found what he sought. He moved to Colorado in 1860 with business partner …
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine
The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike
Inbunden, 2023
421 kr
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Mining the American West Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States. While historians have written prolifically about …
