Montana Mining Ghost Towns
Author: Barbara Fifer
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1560371951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs-landscapes, townsites, homes, stores, mining structures.
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Author: Barbara Fifer
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1560371951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs-landscapes, townsites, homes, stores, mining structures.
Author: Writers' Program (Mont.)
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Writers' Program (Mont.)
Publisher: Ams PressInc
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780404579333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William W. Whitfield
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781931291385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Blake
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1684029929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1963, Les Skramstad came home after a hard day’s work at the local mill and mine in Libby, Montana. His wife kissed him at the door and his kids playfully grabbed his legs. They didn’t mind that he was covered in powdery brown dust. Little did Les and his family know that the dust was deadly. Deadly Mine: Libby, Montana traces the tragic story of a small mining town that eventually became poisoned by a deadly mineral called asbestos. Fascinating photos of the actual events, maps, and fact boxes enrich the compelling text. The personal and heart-breaking story will grip and inspire young readers.
Author: Brian James Leech
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0874175984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.
Author: Harry Cass Freeman
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. L. Lansverk
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0738596914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe route from silver mine to silver dollar could be long and dangerous to the miner, owner, and laborers at every step. It is hard to understand the history without some knowledge of that route. More than simply wagon trails, stream crossings, or buffalo sightings, the route also consisted of people. About half the people who followed a route to populate mining towns were miners; the rest served those who mined, like hotel and boardinghouse operators, lawyers, laborers, assay men, merchants, restaurant servers, lumbermen, store owners, saloon keepers, or a traveling preacher. Images of America: Neihart Mining presents their history in the camp that "could have been the richest town in Montana."
Author: Kelly Suzanne Hartman, with contributions by Cooke City Montana Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1467142891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith claims staked, 1870s prospectors at Cooke City patiently waited for adequate transportation to get their ore to market. Eager enough, they named the town in honor of Northern Pacific tycoon Jay Cooke. Ironically, Cooke's influence in creating Yellowstone National Park stunted the growth of the town, as the park blocked any efforts to support a railroad through its borders. For more than sixty years, residents waited for rail until a new economy took hold--tourism. The dreams of the miners still live on in tumble-down shacks and rusty old mining equipment. And the successful vision of entrepreneurs offering rustic relaxation at the doorstep of Yellowstone continues to lure visitors. Historian Kelly Hartman recounts the saga that left hundreds battling for a railroad that never came.