Gambling on ore: the nature of metal mining in the United States, 1860-1910
| dc.contributor.author | Curtis, Kent A., author | |
| dc.contributor.author | University Press of Colorado, publisher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T06:12:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T06:12:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references | |
| dc.description.abstract | Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant new historical evidence in key primary and secondary sources, Curtis tells the story of the inescapable relationship of mining to nature in the modern world as the United States moved from a primarily agricultural society to a mining nation in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Montana, legal issues and politics--such as unexpected consequences of federal mining law and the electrification of the United States--further complicated the mining industry's already complex relationship to geology, while government policy, legal frameworks, dominant understandings of nature, and the exigencies of profit and production drove the industry in momentous and surprising directions. Despite its many uncertainties, mining became an important part of American culture and daily life. Gambling on Ore unpacks the tangled relationships between mining and the natural world that gave material possibility to the age of electricity. Metal mining has had a profound influence on the human ecology and the social relationships of North America through the twentieth century and throughout the world after World War II. Understanding how we forged these relationships is central to understanding the environmental history of the United States after 1850. | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction: Arsenic in the wilderness, or knowing nature through mining -- 1. Producing a mining landscape: gold rush uncertainty in Proto-Montana -- 2. The value of ores: knowledge and policy in lode mining development -- 3. Turning copper into gold: the dynamics of system building -- 4. The ecology of ore processing: pollution and the law in the Deer Lodge Valley -- Conclusion: Producing a mining society. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | books | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/81129 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | University Press of Colorado | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Mining the American West. | |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Metallurgy -- United States -- History | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Metal trade -- United States -- History | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mines and mineral resources -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mines and mineral resources -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ores -- United States | |
| dc.title | Gambling on ore: the nature of metal mining in the United States, 1860-1910 | |
| dc.type | Text |
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