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Mining Irish-American Lives
Mining Irish-American Lives focuses on the importance and influence of the Irish within the mining frontier of the American West. Scholarship of the West has largely ignored the …
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies
There are many studies of local communities during their heydays, but the life of a community in decline is rarely studied. The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves …
Eben Smith
David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history. Smith was one of the many fortune seekers who traveled to California …
Remembering Ludlow But Forgetting the Columbine
Mining the American West Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of …
A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho
A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho tells the story of a revolution in placer mining-and its subsequent impact on the state of Idaho-from its inception in the early 1880s until its …
Mercury and the Making of California
Exploring the development of California and the relationship between the built environments of the mercury-mining industry and the emerging ethnic identities and communities in …
Gambling on Ore
This book examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth …