Download or read book Appletons Annual Cyclop dia and Register of Important Events of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marvels of the New West written by William M. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Resources of California written by John Shertzer Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calaveras Gold written by Ronald H. Limbaugh and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.
Download or read book History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gold Rush written by Ralph K. Andrist and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of a nugget in California in 1848 set off the first gold rush in history. In 1849 alone, the population increased 500 percent as 80,000 men rushed to claim its riches; three years later, nearly 250,000 people lived there. By 1865, miners had dug and panned $750 million in gold from the hills and streambeds of California. In other countries, mines that produced precious metals were the property of kings and princes. But in California, the gold, like everything else on the frontier, belonged to those who took it. In The Gold Rush, historian Ralph K. Andrist details the culture and characters that created a pivotal moment in American history.
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Download or read book Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver and Gold an Account of the Mining and Metallurgical Industry of the United States written by Rossiter Worthington Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains written by Rossiter Worthington Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Resources of California written by John S. Hittell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book Gold written by Mary Hill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of gold in 1848 catapulted California into statehood and triggered environmental, social, political, and economic events whose repercussions are still felt today. Mary Hill combines her scientific training with a flair for storytelling to present the history of gold in California from the distant geological past through the wild days of the Gold Rush to the present. The early days of gold fever drew would-be miners from around the world, many enduring great hardships to reach California. Once here, they found mining to be backbreaking work and devised machines to help recover gold. These machines pawed gravel from river bottoms and tore apart mountainsides, wreaking environmental havoc that silted rivers, ruined farmlands, and provoked the world's first environmental conflict settled in the courts. Native Americans were nearly wiped out by invading miners or their diseases, and many Spanish-speaking settlers—Californios—were pushed aside. Hill writes of gold's uses in today's world for everything from coins to coffins, gourmet foods to spacecraft. Her comprehensive overview of gold's impact on California includes illustrated explanations of geology and mining in nontechnical language as well as numerous illustrations, maps, and photographs.
