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title	:	Hard Places : Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts American Land and Life Series
author	:	Francaviglia, Richard V.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456097
print isbn13	:	9780877456094
ebook isbn13	:	9781587290701
language	:	English
subject	Mines and mineral resources--United States--History, Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--United States--History, Human ecology--United States--History.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	TN23.F73 1997eb
ddc	:	333.76/5/0973
subject	:	Mines and mineral resources--United States--History, Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--United States--History, Human ecology--United States--History.

Page i Hard Places

Page ii The American Land and Life Series Edited by Wayne Franklin

Page iii Hard Places Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts Richard V. Francaviglia Foreword by Wayne Franklin University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1991 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Francaviglia, Richard V. Hard places: reading the landscape of America's historic mining districts/by Richard V. Francaviglia; foreword by Wayne Franklin.1st ed. p. cm.(American land and life series) Includes bibliographical records and index. ISBN 0-87745-337-3, ISBN 0-87745-609-7 pbk. 1. Mines and mineral resources United StatesHistory. 2. Mineral industriesEnvironmental aspects United StatesHistory. 3. Human ecologyUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. II. Series. TN23.F73 1991 91-16616 333.76'5'0973dc20 CIP 97 98 99 00 01 P 5 4 3 2 1

Page v Generally, to the people who have had the energy to create America's mining landscape, the enthusiasm to interpret it, and the vision to preserve the best of it; specifically, to Jim Strider of the Ohio Historical Society, who provided encouragement and support; and especially to my wife Ellen, daughter Heather, and son Damien, who never complained when I vanished into America's mining landscapes for weeks at a time or sat in front of the word processor for hours on end, in order to tell this story.

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Wayne Franklin xi Introduction xvii Chapter One Reading the Landscape 1 Chapter Two Interpreting the Landscape 63 Chapter Three Perceiving the Landscape 169 Notes 217 Bibliography 225 Index 233

Page ix Acknowledgments Many kind people generously provided material and information, and without them this book could not have been written. The list includes miners and mining engineers, professors, mining museum administrators, historic preservationists, staff members of government agencies, and local historians, among them Steve Gordon, Ray Luce, Jeff Brown, Franco Ruffini, Mary Anne Peters, Glenn Harper, and Elizabeth Reeb of the Ohio Historical Society; Harry Metz and Ed Lehner of Bisbee, Arizona; Linda Carrico of the U.S. Bureau of Mines; Donald Hardesty and Earl Kersten, Jr., of the University of Nevada at Reno; Tom King, preservation consultant in Washington, D.C.; David Nystuen, Dennis Gimmestad, and Homer Hruby of the Minnesota Historical Society; Ronald Reno and Mona Reno of Silver City, Nevada; Mary Ann Landis of the Eckley Miner's Village in Pennsylvania; Shaune Skinner of Columbus, Ohio; Barry Price of Fresno, California; Jane Jenness and Joe McGregor of the United States Geological Survey; Carolyn Torma and Paul Putz of the South Dakota Historical Preservation Agency; Tom Green and Merle Wells of the Idaho Historical Society; Dale Martin and Fred Quivik of the Klepetko (Montana) section of the Society for Industrial Archaeology; Kent Powell and Phil Notarianni of the Utah Historical Society; John Reps of Cornell University; Michael Hansen of the Ohio Geological Survey; Marjorie Tibbetts of the Orton Hall Geology Library at the Ohio State University; historian David Myrick of Santa Barbara, California; Pat Cummins, Bill Lawson, and the able staff of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society; the good volunteers of the Lincoln County Historical Society in Pioche, Nevada, and the World Museum of Mining in Butte, Montana; Larry Tanner and Tom Vaughan of the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum in Bisbee, Arizona; Julia Costello and Judith Cun-

Page x ningham, mining history consultants in Mokelumne Hill, California; the National Park Service's Paul Gleeson (Anchorage) and Robert Spude (Denver); Professor Duane Smith of Durango, Colorado; Patrick Andrus at the National Register of Historic Places; Warren Wittry of the Missouri Mines State Historic Site; David Gradwohl of the Iowa State University; Pat Nolan and the able staff of the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware; Robbyn Jackson and Eric DeLony of the Historic American Engineering Record: Ivan Tribe of Rio Grande College; William Edwards and Mack Gillenwater of Marshall University; Sherry Kilgore of the Tennessee Historical Commission; Professor John Webb of SUNY-Albany; Professor Arnie Alanen of the University of Wisconsin at Madison; Paul Wannarka of the Tower-Soudan historic mine in Minnesota; Ed Nelson and the fine staff of Iron World at Chisholm, Minnesota; Sheppard Black of the Ohio University Library at Athens; and fellow landscape geographer and friend Gary Peterson of Bountiful, Utah. Dr. Margaret King at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, suggested the American Land and Life Series as the appropriate place for the ideas in

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