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  • Mining Towns of Southern Colorado

    de Staci Comden, Victoria Miller, Sara Szakaly ...
    Series series Images of America
    Lesser known than the gold and silver mines of Western lore, Southern Colorado�s extensive coal mines fueled the engines for Western industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the numerous companies operating the mines, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was king. With a total of 62 mines, the majority of them in Colorado�s Las Animas, Huerfano, and Fremont Counties, CF ... Leer más

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  • Pilgrim's Wilderness

    A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

    de Tom Kizzia ...
    Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ... Leer más

    Antes $9.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

  • Fire and Brimstone

    The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

    de Michael Punke ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant—the basis for the award-winning film starring Leonardo DiCaprio—tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed ... Leer más

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  • Quarry Vision

    Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom; Quarterly Essay 33

    de Guy Pearse ...
    Series Libro 33 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia's response to climate change must truly baffle outsiders. Why do our leaders pretend that they are leading the world in the battle against global warming? When do environmental risks outweigh economic benefits? Why dig deeper when the rest of the world is looking for alternatives to coal?Why do our leaders pretend that they are leading the world in the battle against global warming? When ... Leer más

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  • A Kennecott Story

    Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997

    de Charles Caldwell Hawley ...
    While copper seems less glamorous than gold, it may be far more important. Copper proved vital to the industrial revolution and indispensable for electrification of America. Kennecott Copper Corporation, at one time the largest producer of copper in the world, thus played a key role in economic and industrial development. This book recounts how Kennecott was formed from the merger of three mining ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Haunted Warren Air Force Base

    de Jill Pope ...
    Series series Haunted America
    As the oldest continuously active U.S. Air Force military installation, it's no wonder Francis E. Warren Air Force Base is one of the most haunted military bases in the nation. Rumor has it that residents keep a log of unnatural incidents, like early morning phantom maneuvers on the parade grounds. A long-deceased cavalryman refuses to leave his post, while another specter prefers to linger in the ... Leer más

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  • The Roar and the Silence

    A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode

    de Ronald M. James ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Great Ocean

    Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

    de David Igler ...
    The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Comstock Women

    The Making Of A Mining Community

    Edición de Ronald M. James, C. Elizabeth Raymond ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Nevada

    A History of the Silver State

    de Michael S. Green ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title.Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy.Of the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Downwind

    A People's History of the Nuclear West

    de Sarah Alisabeth Fox ...
    Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.Sarah Alisabeth Fox interviews residents of the Great Basin region affected by environmental contamination from the uranium industry and nuclear ... Leer más

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  • The City That Ate Itself

    Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit

    de Brian James Leech ...
    Series Libro 1 - Mining and Society Series
    Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD