Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier
by Smith, Duane A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Indiana University Press, 1967. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Good. Some short tears and edgewear to dustjacket. "Few Americans at the end of the Mexican War in 1848 dreamed of the vast mineral potential of the country they had wrested from their southern neighbor," writes Duane A. Smith, author of Rocky Mountain Mining Camps. "Few would have believed that within a generation this land would be crisscrossed by prospectors in search of gold and silver, that valuable deposits would be found, and that permanent settlement would rapidly follow." Yet, from the first gold rush into the Rockies in 1859 to the "playing out" of most of the area's gold fields in the 1890s, a previously unsettled wilderness experienced urbanization and crude camps transformed into cities overnight. In this history of a number of Rocky Mountain mining settlements, Smith traces the cycle of this frontier phenomenon as camps pop up, experience the uncontrolled booms, and either die with the depletion of their mineral resources or survive as permanent agricultural and mining communities.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010024937
- Title
- Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier
- Author
- Smith, Duane A
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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