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Mining America : The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980
author
:
Smith, Duane A.
publisher
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University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin
:
0870813064
print isbn13
:
9780870813061
ebook isbn13
:
9780585003863
language
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English
subject
Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--United States--History, Mineral industries--United States--Public opinion, Public opinion--United States, Mineral industries--Social aspects--United States.
publication date
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1993
lcc
:
TD195.M5S6 1993eb
ddc
:
363.73/1
subject
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Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--United States--History, Mineral industries--United States--Public opinion, Public opinion--United States, Mineral industries--Social aspects--United States.
Page iv
Copyright 1993 by the University Press of Colorado
Copyright 1987 by the University Press of Kansas
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Duane A.
Mining America: the industry and the environment, 18001980 / Duane A. Smith.
p. cm.
Originally published: Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, c1987, in series: Development of western resources.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-306-4 (pbk.)
1. Mineral industries Environmental aspects United States History.
2. Mineral industries United States Public opinion. 3. Public opinion
United States. 4. Mineral industries Social aspects United States. I. Title.
TD195.M5S6 1993
93-13337
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Page v
For Gary Hart
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Prologue
1
1 Booming, Digging, and Dumping
5
2 "We Were Giants"
25
3 "Going to Cover Marysville Up"
42
4 "Mining Destroys and Devastates"
54
5 The Rustling Breeze of Change
67
6 "We Only Want a Square Deal"
81
7 Reprieve!
105
8 "A Tradition That Endured Far Too Long"
123
9 Environmental Whirlwind
136
10 A Vision, a Hope for the Future
149
Epilogue: The 1980s
163
Bibliography
189
Index
205
Page ix
Illustrations
Hydraulic mining in California in the nineteenth century
7
Placer miners in Colorado in the 1860s
10
The impact of miningColorado's 10th Legion Lode, 1864/65
20
Mining sites in the United States in the nineteenth century (map)
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