6 Ergebnisse.

Keine Beschreibung.

Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story told in this engaging history.

Keine Beschreibung.

This significant study offers information on the British inventors who brought capital to America's mining industry in the late nineteenth century. The author devotes primary attention to the promotional activities that led to the organization and operation of more than 500 English joint venture stock companies between 1860 and 1901. In excerpts from general and specialized British periodicals, he shows how the success or failure of American m...

Examines the professional mining engineer in terms of his education, lifestyle, actual work, and impact on the environment beyond the Mississippi.

The moment of brilliance of Idaho's Wood River mining towns spanned roughly the decade of the 1880s. Silver-lead ore discoveries led to the rise of Idaho centers such as Bellevue, Hailey, Bullion, Broadford, Ketchum, and Muldoon, but the Wood River district has never been given its due. Noted mining historian Clark Spence fills the gap by focusing on the mining history of the region and capturing the flavor and activities of the early camps an...