Mining In California
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Mining California
Author | : Andrew C. Isenberg |
Publsiher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780374707200 |
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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Hydraulic Mining in California
Author | : Powell Greenland |
Publsiher | : Arthur H. Clark Company |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105025284501 |
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For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Mining for Freedom
Author | : Sylvia Alden Roberts |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780595524921 |
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Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
California Gold
Author | : Rodman Wilson Paul |
Publsiher | : Bison Books |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050713992 |
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Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California
Author | : Philip Ross May |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105035278766 |
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The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
A Golden State
Author | : Marlene Smith-Baranzini |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520217705 |
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A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.
Chapter of Report of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau
Author | : California State Mining Bureau |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : UCBK:C033259980 |
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We the Miners
Author | : Andrea G. McDowell |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2022-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674248113 |
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The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.