Western Lands and Waters Series – serie
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Alex Swan and the Swan Companies
Häftad, 2016
263 kr
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The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan's many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the …
Wyoming's Big Horn Basin to 1901
A Late Frontier
Häftad, 2020
343 kr
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Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn did its part to win fame for the Big Horn Basin, and much has been written about the famous characters of Wyoming. But until now the region which is Wyoming's last frontier has not received comprehensive treatment. This new study examines the Big …
Hydraulic Mining in California
A Tarnished Legacy
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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Hydraulic mining was, and remains, controversial. It produced great wealth from the soil of California, yet damaged the land in such a way that the scars will remain for eons. Great hillsides were denuded of soil by streams of water which boggle the imagination, and the sediment which was washed …
Cornish Miner in America
The Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by Emigrant Cornish Miners — the Men Called Cousin Jacks
Häftad, 2022
255 kr
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The hands of Cornish miners bore scars of one of the most sophisticated traditions of hard-rock mining in the world. Toughened "Cousin Jacks" brought generations of toilsome underground experience to the Americas from one of the oldest mining regions of the world. Once here, their skill with …
Steamboats West
The 1859 American Fur Company Missouri River Expedition
Av Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara J. Cottrell
Inbunden, 2010
411 kr
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Murder of a Landscape
The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916
Inbunden, 2010
411 kr
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