Mining California

Mining California
Title Mining California PDF eBook
Author Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 253
Release 2010-08-24
Genre History
ISBN 0374707200

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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.

Mining for Freedom

Mining for Freedom
Title Mining for Freedom PDF eBook
Author Sylvia Alden Roberts
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 162
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 0595524923

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Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."

We the Miners

We the Miners
Title We the Miners PDF eBook
Author Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 336
Release 2022-06-28
Genre History
ISBN 0674248112

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The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.

Mining North America

Mining North America
Title Mining North America PDF eBook
Author John R. McNeill
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 456
Release 2017-07-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0520279174

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"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.

Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians

Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians
Title Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians PDF eBook
Author Kimberly Johnston-Dodds
Publisher California Research Bureau
Pages 60
Release 2002
Genre Law
ISBN

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Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.

The California Debris Commission

The California Debris Commission
Title The California Debris Commission PDF eBook
Author Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)
Publisher
Pages 122
Release 1981
Genre Government publications
ISBN

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The Mining Law of 1872

The Mining Law of 1872
Title The Mining Law of 1872 PDF eBook
Author Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 270
Release 2011-09-16
Genre Mineral industries
ISBN 0826343570

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Bakken traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone.