Author: Signa Niemi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Paul De Kruif
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816652627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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An account of the discovery and development of the great iron deposits of the Mesabi Range describes how the seven Merritt brothers found the iron ore in 1890, only to lose control of the resource and the wealth that it would bring to powerful industrialist John D. Rockefeller. Reprint.

Author: Marvin G. Lamppa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942235562
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Chronicles the development of the Iron Range, including the lives of the working class people as well as the industrial and political forces that built and exploited this region in a series of booms and busts.

Author: Margaret Irene Briggs
Publisher:
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Category : Mesabi Range (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: Horace Vaughn
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Virginia R. Pickering
Publisher:
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Category : Mesabi Range (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Ralph W. Marsden
Publisher:
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Category : Iron ores
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: SIGNA. NIEMI
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033402399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Jeffrey T. Manuel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816694297
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world's richest iron ore mining districts. The Iron Range propelled the U.S. steel industry in the late nineteenth century, and iron mining sustained generations in the region with work and a strong economy. But long before most other parts of the country faced the realities of industrial decline, Minnesota's Iron Range was already striving to maintain its core industry. In Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron Range, 1915-2000, Jeffrey T. Manuel examines how the region fought the dislocation that came with economic changes, technological advances, and global shifts in industrial production. On the Iron Range, efforts included the development of taconite mining as a technological fix for the drop in hematite mining. Manuel describes the Iron Range's modern history and how the downturn was opposed by individuals, civic groups, and commercial interests. The first book dedicated to thoroughly exploring this era on the Iron Range, Taconite Dreams demonstrates how the area fit into a larger story of regions wrestling with deindustrialization in the twentieth century. The 1964 taconite amendment to Minnesota's constitution, the bruising federal pollution lawsuit that closed a taconite plant, and the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board's economic development policy are all discussed. Ultimately, the resistance against economic decline is also a battle over mining's memory and legacy, one that continues today. Manuel's history sheds much-needed light on this important yet widely overlooked mining region as well as the impact of the past century's struggles on the people who call it home.

Author: Aaron J. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980078909
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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