The Mechanics Of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, And The Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868 - Couverture rigide

Safford, Jeffrey J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0870817825 ISBN 13 : 9780870817823

Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2004

Synopsis

For every successful mining district celebrated in history, there were failed dozens whose stories have been largely forgotten. The Mechanics of Optimism documents, in rare detail, the boom-bust cycle of Hot Spring District, a mid-1860s Montana gold camp that did not pay, despite early predictions of a sure thing. Historian Jeffrey J. Safford examines how gold mining ventures were developed and financed during and after the Civil War, and how men, primarily Easterners with scant knowledge of mining, were willing to invest large sums in gold mines that promised quick and lucrative returns. Safford explains how these mining companies were organized and underwritten, and why a little-known district in southwestern Montana was chosen as a center of operations. Relying on extensive primary sources, Safford addresses the mind-set of the businessmen, the expectations and realities of new mining technology, the financial strategies, and the universality of the Hot Spring experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeffrey J. Safford is professor emeritus of history at Montana State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Colorado
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870817825
• ISBN 13: 9780870817823
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 217
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