Download or read book Picher Oklahoma written by Todd Stewart and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 10, 2008, a tornado struck the northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher, destroying more than one hundred homes and killing six people. It was the final blow to a onetime boomtown already staggering under the weight of its history. The lead and zinc mining that had given birth to the town had also proven its undoing, earning Picher in 2006 the distinction of being the nation’s most toxic Superfund site. Recounting the town’s dissolution and documenting its remaining traces, Picher, Oklahoma tells the story of an unfolding ghost town. With shades of Picher’s past lives lingering at every intersection, memories of its proud history and sad decline inhere in the relics, artifacts, personal treasures, and broken structures abandoned in disaster’s wake. In Todd Stewart’s haunting photographs, faded snapshots and letters, well-worn garments, and books and toys give harrowing and elegiac testimony of constancy and dislocation. Empty buildings and bared foundations stand in silent witness to the homes, schools, churches, and businesses that once defined life in Picher. As these photographs and Alison Fields’s accompanying essays explore the otherworldly town teetering over massive sinkholes, they reveal how memory, embedded in everyday objects, can be dislocated and reframed through both chronic and acute instances of environmental trauma. Though hardly known outside the Three Corners Region of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, the fate of Picher echoes well beyond its borders. Picher, Oklahoma reflects the broader intersections of memory, time, material objects, and changing environments, demanding our attention even as it resists easy interpretation.

Download or read book Abandoned Picher Oklahoma written by Regina Daniel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement taken from publisher's website.

Download or read book Annual Report of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma for the Year written by Oklahoma Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International mining and metallurgical manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tar Creek written by Larry G. Johnson and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small tribe of Indians, the Quapaws, survived civilization. A group of criminals, the likes of Bonnie and Clyde, found refuge. The wealth that poured from the ground created some of the richest Indians in the World. And Mickey Mantle got his start as a lead and zinc miner. All these events, and more, took place in or around a small community known as Picher, Oklahoma. And from the early part of the twentieth century, that community was nearly hidden under millions of tons of chat waste piles. Join author Larry Johnson on an exciting adventure starting with the origin of the Native American tribes, leading up to the horrific environmental hazards and final destruction of this town in the May 2008 tornadoes. Tar Creek effectively spins the true tale of the Quapaw Indians, the world's greatest discovery of lead and zinc, and the making of the oldest and largest environmental Superfund site in America. Organically encompassed in this tale are the first footsteps of the American Indian in the Western Hemisphere, the founding of the United States, and the transition of Indian Territories into statehood. Tar Creek is an hourglass with the discovery of lead and zinc at Picher as the skinny neck through which all of the interconnected acts and events preceding the discovery are slowly moving, resulting in the repercussions ninety years later. You'll be engaged and awed as you learn the real story on the journey to Tar Creek.

Download or read book Annual Report written by Oklahoma Corporation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hard As the Rock Itself written by David Robertson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized in scholarly and literary works as derelict, as sources of debasing moral influence, and as scenes of environmental decay - have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction. Robertson documents the history of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Colorado; and Picher, Oklahoma, from the mineral discovery phase through mine closure, telling for the first time how these century-old mining towns have survived and how sense of place has played a vital role. Acknowledging the hardships that mining's social, environmental, and economic legacies have created for current residents, Robertson argues that the industry's influences also have contributed to the creation of strong, cohesive communities in which residents have always identified with the severe landscape and challenging, but rewarding way of life. Robertson contends that the tough, unpretentious appearance of mining landscapes mirrors qualities that residents value in themselves, confirming that a strong sense of place in mining regions, as elsewhere, is not necessarily wedded to an attractive aesthetic or even to a thriving economy.

Download or read book International Mining and Metallurgical Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma written by John Wesley Morris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.

Download or read book Bulletin written by American Zinc Institute and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 13-, 1930-, comprise reports and addresses presented at the annual meeting.

Download or read book Bulletin of American Zinc Institute Inc written by American Zinc Institute and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Mines Handbook written by Walter Garfield Neale and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mines Register written by Walter Harvey Weed and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discovering The Family I Never Knew written by Lee Brand and published by Lee Brand. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fictional story inspired by real people and real events. Take an exciting journey with Jeffrey Madison and his exploration into his family history and the dramatic and unexpected outcome. In 1964, Jeffrey lost his father Jack Madison in a tragic airplane crash when he was only 15 years old. Years later, a chance visit to Butte Montana raised questions about his father and his grandfather Arthur Madison and kindled an obsessive drive to uncover the truth about their lives. This story was a revelation about the family history he never knew. His father grew up in the Great Depression and was a lonely, troubled child with an alcoholic mother and a distant father. For nearly 24 years, his grandfather worked in the dangerous lead and copper mines in Oklahoma and Montana. He was able to overcome adversity and re-make himself. The story reveals the powerful connection between generations in a family and its significant influence on our own lives. It is a parable on the enduring value of family and friendships.