Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County - Couverture rigide

University Of Nevada Press

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874175461 ISBN 13 : 9780874175462

Editeur : University of Nevada Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 of importance 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 occurrenc

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ronald H. Limbaugh is the author or editor of numerous books and articles about Western political history, environmental history, and the history of technology. He retired in 2000 after thirty-four years at the University of the Pacific, serving concurrently as director of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies and Rockwell Hunt Professor of California History. Willard P. Fuller Jr. has been a resident of Calaveras County since 1954 and a leader of the Calaveras County Historical Society for nearly forty years. He is retired from a lifelong career as a mining geologist, engineer, and consultant.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nevada Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874175461
• ISBN 13: 9780874175462
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
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