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Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier Paperback - 2017
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- Title Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier
- Author Duane a. Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 305
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date 2017-05
- ISBN 9780253031143 / 0253031141
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.67 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 1.70 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Colorado
- Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History - 1860-1890, West (U.S.) - History - 1848-1860
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017009282
- Dewey Decimal Code 978
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Paperback / softback. New. Traditionally the American frontier was the home of the self-sufficient individualist, a rural environment where settlers lived without the comforts of society. But from the first gold rush into the Rockies in 1859 until the 1890s, when most gold fields had been played out, the unsettled wilderness of the Rocky Mountains became the setting of a unique phenomenon-the Western mining camp. To be profitable, miners needed a community of support-including secure lines of transportation, farmers who could raise crops, and merchants who could supply equipment. The lure of easy money also attracted a drifting crowd of gamblers, prostitutes, and con men, and a saloon and a brothel often were the first businesses to appear in a prospering mining town. Unstable populations and a lack of planning exacerbated the problems of the mining camps, including lawlessness, destructive fires, and rough-and-ready vigilante justice, but most maturing communities stabilized and quickly established…
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