Narrow Gauge to Jerome
Author: Russell Wahmann
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Russell Wahmann
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780962100000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. C. Condé
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of Hawaiian Island plantation railroad development from 1876.
Author: Midge Steuber
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738558820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rugged mining community of Jerome has thrived by the hard work and hard play of tough men and women pitted against an equally hard mountain. William Murray solicited funding for the Black Hills mining camp from his uncle, a New York lawyer and financier named Eugene Murray Jerome, who reportedly was not interested. However, his independent wife was delighted at the prospect and raised $200,000 in development capital for Murray. In 1882, Frederick F. Thomas, Jerome's first postmaster, named the mining camp "Jerome" in honor of the family. Jerome boomed, ultimately reaching a reported population peak of 15,000 in the 1920s, then dwindling to a ghost town after the mines closed. In 1967, the town was designated a National Historic Landmark, and today it is a flourishing artist community, as well as a motorcycle and travel destination.
Author: Arizona Corporation Commission
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 546
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 792
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horace Jared Stevens
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 2686
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles K. Hyde
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-03-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0816532796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas—the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska—from colonial times to the present. Starting with the predominance of New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the early nineteenth century, Copper for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and to Montana, Arizona, and other western states in the late nineteenth century. The book also examines the U.S. copper industry's decline in the twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign copper industries and unforeseen changes in the national and global copper markets. An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.
Author: Paul A. Handverger and the Clarkdale Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467131393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClarkdale is recognized as a "Place of History" in the National Register of Historic Places, possessing both historical and architectural significance. Clarkdale's story began eons ago with the creation of its natural environment. The first people came thousands of years ago to this lush land, followed by subsequent cultures that made use of the abundant water, rich soil, and moderate climate. In the early 20th century, mining magnate William Clark built the smelter company town of Clarkdale; the agricultural age was soon replaced by the industrial age. Clark became one of the wealthiest men in America, with most of his money coming from the output of Clarkdale's smelter. Since the smelter closure in 1953, the former workers' homes, smelter site, and company lands have been recycled into today's homes, a tourist destination, and a place of museums, education, and the arts, all located within a spectacular environment of mountains and river. This book presents that story.