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Calaveras Gold: The Impact Of Mining On A Mother Lode County (Shepperson Series in History Humanities)
Limbaugh, Ronald H., Fuller, Willard P.
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Description for Calaveras Gold: The Impact Of Mining On A Mother Lode County (Shepperson Series in History Humanities)
Hardcover. This work offers a detailed history of mining and its economic impact in Calaveras County in the central Sierra from the first discoveries in the 1840s. It examines the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society, and the generation and distribution of capital. Series: Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities. Num Pages: 392 pages, 75 b&w photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; KNAT; TTU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874175462
SKU
V9780874175462
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99-15
About Limbaugh, Ronald H., Fuller, Willard P.
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. ... Read more
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