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The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects
Gordon Morris Bakken
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Description for The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects
Hardcover. Traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone and how it has informed much of the lore of the settlement of the West. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KNAT; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
History has left us a classic image of western mining in the grizzly forty-niner squatting by a clear stream sifting through gravel to reveal gold. What this slice of Western Americana does not reveal, however, is thousands of miners doing the same, their gravel washing downstream, causing the water to grow dark with debris while trout choke to death and wash ashore. Instead of the havoc wreaked upon the western landscape, we are told stories of American enterprise, ingenuity, and fortune.The General Mining Act of 1872, which declared all valuable mineral deposits on public lands to be free and open ... Read more
History has left us a classic image of western mining in the grizzly forty-niner squatting by a clear stream sifting through gravel to reveal gold. What this slice of Western Americana does not reveal, however, is thousands of miners doing the same, their gravel washing downstream, causing the water to grow dark with debris while trout choke to death and wash ashore. Instead of the havoc wreaked upon the western landscape, we are told stories of American enterprise, ingenuity, and fortune.The General Mining Act of 1872, which declared all valuable mineral deposits on public lands to be free and open ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826343567
SKU
V9780826343567
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About Gordon Morris Bakken
Gordon Morris Bakken earned B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He teaches courses on American legal and constitutional history, westward movement, American military heritage, women of the American West, women and American law, as well as historical thinking and historical writing at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or editor of numerous books ... Read more
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