The Early History of a Mining Town
Author: Robert D. Dobson
Publisher: Robert D Dobson
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 152
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Author: Robert D. Dobson
Publisher: Robert D Dobson
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence P. Gooley
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781567150827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780806120843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDepicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author: Wm. B. Shillingberg
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016-02-19
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0806154098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce nearly forgotten, Tombstone, Arizona, is trapped in myth and legend. Walking its quiet streets, one finds it hard to separate truth from illusion and remember this was a real town, not some Hollywood fantasy. Tombstone’s rough and rowdy exploits were reported from San Francisco to New York. William B. Shillingberg rediscovers the real Tombstone in this historical tour-de-force. The rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and women seeking their fortunes, comes to life with startling clarity. Tombstone, A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem relates true tales of those who founded and built the town, including the infamous Earps and Clantons. Shillingberg details life in a pioneer mining town, from the discoverers of the mines, Edward and Albert Schieffelin and Richard Gird, to the amazing cast of characters in the most celebrated gunfight in western history—the shootout at the OK Corral, between Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, Doc Holliday, and a gang led by Ike Clanton. And tales of John Ringo, Frank Leslie, and diarist George W. Parsons are filled with the famous and the notorious. Today Tombstone slumbers, a shadow of its faded glory, supported by clouded memories and tourist dollars. But the real story remains, and Tombstone, A.T. tells it.
Author: Ron Kuzemchak
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dan L. Mosier
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. Merton Coulter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0820334979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first gold rush in American history occurred in north Georgia; it preceded the mining booms in the West by almost two decades. Published in 1956, Auraria tells the story of the mining town at the center of Georgia's gold frenzy. Auraria, which reached its zenith in the 1830s, eventually faded into a ghost town by the twentieth century. E. Merton Coulter gives readers more than a local study by placing Auraria's fascinating story in the context of larger regional and national developments.
Author: Ralph Gray
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-06-07
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781547221653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNestled in a hollow in the hills of Western Pennsylvania is the former coal-mining town of Marsteller, locally known as "Mosscreek". At its birth in the early 20th century, it was a company-owned town; and most of the miners had immigrated from Southern and Eastern Europe to fill the need of unskilled labor as the demand for coal increased. This book is a story about the colorful past of a town and its people; what life was like in the "Little City of Black Diamonds" which hummed with activity as it became a boom-town in the 1920's and 30's, and its decline after World War II as the demand for coal diminished.
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow a world-famous ski resort, Aspen, Colorado, began its life as a booming silver-mining town. This book tells the story of Aspen from its founding in 1879 to the collapse of the silver market in 1893. It is replete with colorful portraits of the pioneers who built and developed the town that became the richest silver-mining center in America.
Author: Charles Edward Adams
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780817317775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNormal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Blocton chronicles the history of a community built on coal. In 1883 two entrepreneurs--Truman Aldrich, a New York engineer, and Cornelius Cadle, a former Union Army officer--created the Cahaba Coal Mining Company and built a railroad eight miles into the wilderness of northern Bibb County to tap thick veins of coal deep underground. There, they built the town of Blocton and beside the town rose a sister suburb, West Blocton. In 1892 the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company took control of the Blocton mines, and fifteen years later US Steel swallowed the Tennessee company. Blocton coal was in high demand during World War I and production continued. By the end of the 1920s, however, a devastating fire, mine closure, and the stock market crash devastated the area. Blocton is more than a history of wealthy men, great deeds, greater crises, and giant corporations. It recounts the hopes and dreams, accomplishments and everyday tragedies of the miners, housewives, store keepers, teachers, and all the people who gave personality and perseverance to the community.