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Author: Eugene L. Conrotto
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0486142051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandy guide to long-lost mines, rich veins of ore, silver lodes, buried treasure, other bonanzas awaiting discovery. Descriptions of each treasure, general locale, maps, more. 96 maps, over 50 other illustrations.
Author: Otis E. Young, Jr.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1977-06-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780806113524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, for the first time, is a clear account in words and pictures of the methods by which gold and silver were extracted and processed in the Old West. The author describes the early days of Spanish and Indian mining and the wild era inaugurated by the American prospector who rushed west to get rich quick, ending with the year 1893, when repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act virtually closed the mining frontier. The account gives in laymen’s language the techniques employed in prospecting, placering, lode mining, and milling, particularly those employed by the Spaniards, Indians, and Cornishmen, and shows how the ever-practical Americans adapted and improved them. Special attention is given to the methods employed in the California and Montana gold fields, Colorado and the Comstock Lode, the Black Hills, and Tombstone, Arizona. In these pages the reader also meets some of the unforgettable personalities whose lives enriched (and sometimes impoverished) the mining camps.
Author: Duane A. Smith
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1457109883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever, affecting settlement, territorial status, statehood, publicity, development, investment, economy, jobs both in and outside the industry, transportation, tourism, advances in mining and smelting technology, and urbanization. Moreover, the first generation of Colorado mining brought a fascinating collection of people and a new era to the region. Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush. Smith's narrative will appeal to anybody with an interest in the state's fascinating mining history over the past 150 years.
Author: Dan De Quille
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible, such information in regard to the silver mines of the Comstock as the visiting tourist is likely to require." -- introductory.
Author: Richard Kellogg
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781892384287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rossiter Worthington Raymond
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John R. McNeill
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0520279174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 600
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Singel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-05-26
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781719553469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Author: Char Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1136755241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use and management * technology and industry * polluti
