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Book Riches for All

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth N. Owens
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803286177
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Riches for All written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.

Book The New Zealand Mines Record

Download or read book The New Zealand Mines Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho

Download or read book A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho written by Clark C. Spence and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 demise in the early 1960s. Idaho was the nation’s fourth-leading producer of dredged gold after 1910 and therefore provides an excellent lens through which to observe the practice and history of gold dredging. Author Clark Spence focuses on the two most important types of dredges in the state—the bucket-line dredge and the dragline dredge—and describes their financing, operation, problems, and effect on the state and environment. These dredges made it possible to work ground previously deemed untouchable because bedrock where gold collected could now be reached. But they were also highly destructive to the environment. As these huge machines floated along, they dumped debris that harmed the streams and destroyed wildlife habitat, eventually prompting state regulations and federal restoration of some of the state’s crippled waterways. Providing a record of Idaho’s dredging history for the first time, this book is a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of Western mining, its technology, and its overall development as a major industry of the twentieth century.

Book Economic Geology

Download or read book Economic Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mining Reporter

Download or read book Mining Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mining Science

Download or read book Mining Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mining American

Download or read book Mining American written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

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Book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand

Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appendix to the Journal of the House of the Representatives

Download or read book Appendix to the Journal of the House of the Representatives written by New Zealand. Legislature. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conrey Placer Mining Company

Download or read book The Conrey Placer Mining Company written by Clark C. Spence and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic mining company experimented with massive equipment and innovative techniques to dig millions of dollars in gold out of Alder Gulch.

Book The Real McKay

Download or read book The Real McKay written by D. G. Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although this is a book about a geologist, by a geologist, it is not a geological book. It is written to appeal to all those interested in the history of exploration, science, and the colonisation of New Zealand" -- Introd.

Book New Zealand National Bibliography

Download or read book New Zealand National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand National Bibliography to the Year 1960  1890 1960  I O

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Book Mining Journal  Railway   Commercial Gazette

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