Author: Fred Brost Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc. ISBN: 1627876901 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
This is not only a story about mining, nor is it an autobiography, but rather a collection of interesting and sometimes strange stories from the author's life, tracing his way from an adventurous childhood through his training as a mining engineer, his service as a bomb disposal officer in the U.S. Army, and his adventures dealing with different cultures in places that most Americans only go as tourists -- if at all. What is it like to descend 11,000 feet below surface in a South African gold mine? To disarm a misfired missile in the launch silo? To survive an apocalyptical cargo cult event in Papua New Guinea? To face the blazing stars at night on the altiplano in Bolivia? To travel up the Amazon on a fool's errand, dining on armadillo on the half shell? To search for the Queen of Sheba's mines in Yemen? To expose mining scams in Arizona? These are some of the stories that the author relates in his own unique, informative, and sometimes ribald way. Any fan of travel and adventure stories should enjoy this book.
Author: Frank Waters Publisher: Swallow Press ISBN: Category : Colorado Languages : en Pages : 780
Book Description
During the fabulous reign of Colorado Silver, innumerable prospectors passed by Pike's Peak on their way to the silver strikes at Leadville, Aspen, and the boom camps in the Saguache, Sangre de Cristo, and San Juan mountain. Then, in 1890, a carpenter named Winfield Scott Stratton discovered gold along Cripple Creek. By 1900, this six square mile area on the south slope of Pike's Peak supported 475 mines and led the world in gold production. Against this backdrop of frenzied mining and gold fever, Pike's Peak tells the story of Joseph Rogier, a man who seeks and finds his fortune in Colorado, and then loses everything in pursuit of something more important. Arriving in Colorado Springs in the 1870s, Rogier becomes a successful contractor and builder and helps to raise a little mountain town into the Saratoga of the west. He rears a large family and scoffs at the "alfalfa miners" chasing silver strikes everywhere. But with the discovery of gold at nearby Cripple Creek, Rogier is shaken and methodically squanders his prosperous business and all his property attempting to reach the "great gold heart" of Pike's Peak. Waters' is a psychologically modern novel whose universal theme is expressed on the grand scale of the opening of a territory. It is both a marvelously colorful and detailed account of the days when Colorado boomed and Denver became a big town, and an allegory of one man's furious pursuit of the truth within himself.
Author: F. W. McQuiston Publisher: Blue Dolphin Pub ISBN: 9780931892073 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
The Empire Mine opened in the 1850s in Grass Valley, California, and its preservation is a small but significant example of the development of mining techniques and equipment, hard rock and deep-shaft mining, stamp mills, and the furtherance of geological knowledge in the West.
Author: Powell Greenland Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Author: Sheila Kelly Publisher: University of Alaska Press ISBN: 1602231028 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold mining’s past.
Author: Duane A. Smith Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 1457109883 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever, affecting settlement, territorial status, statehood, publicity, development, investment, economy, jobs both in and outside the industry, transportation, tourism, advances in mining and smelting technology, and urbanization. Moreover, the first generation of Colorado mining brought a fascinating collection of people and a new era to the region. Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush. Smith's narrative will appeal to anybody with an interest in the state's fascinating mining history over the past 150 years.
Author: Jonathan P. Thompson Publisher: Torrey House Press ISBN: 1937226840 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
"A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'" —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Award–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends. JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor–in–chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.
Author: Garnet Basque Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co ISBN: 9781895811421 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
Here are the stories of early days in the West Kootenay. Nine chapters include tales from Ainsworth, West Kootenay's first town; the story of Nelson; ghost towns of the silvery Slocan; and the legendary gold of Rossland. The book is well illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, and includes an index. Now in its fourth printing.
Author: Fred Brost
Author: Frank Waters
Author: F. W. McQuiston
Author: Powell Greenland
Author: Sheila Kelly
Author: Duane A. Smith
Author: Duane A. Smith
Author: Jonathan P. Thompson
Author: Frank Waters
Author: Garnet Basque