Author: Bill BryansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Coal Mining in Twentieth Century Wyoming
Author: Bill BryansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Forgotten Frontier
Author: A. Dudley GardnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429710313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This work reflects part of the history of Wyoming coal mining. Much more needs to be written. To those that have produced written histories, historical overviews, and manuscripts we cited here, we extend thanks. To the archaeologists and historians who are studying Wyoming's past and attempting to preserve its lasting legacy, we applaud your efforts. The flight of time is not complete, but the history that has passed shows coal miners will be a part of the future. To those that are attempting to preserve the mining history of Wyoming and the West, we are grateful. And to men such as Steven Creasman and Gary Beach, who have the courage to dream and the willingness to persevere in attempting to save America's past, thank you. With the help of such unselfish individuals this work has been strengthened, but the responsibilities of accuracy fall to the authors alone.
Glencoe
Author: Dorothy WrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9781932636185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Glencoe was just one of Wyoming's many small coal camps that was established in the early twentieth century. Some coal camps survived beyond World War II, some lasted a little longer and some flourished and grew into the great coal producing towns of the twenty-first which still supply coal for the nation. Though Glencoe's history is brief, it is rich in the stories of her hardworking people-the miners and their families, the union, the schools and the mine itself. Though life in that small coal camp was hard, the people pulled together to create a rich sense of community and the times were not devoid of simple entertainment, of fun and of friends. As they did in Echoes of Elkol, Dorothy Wright and her collaborators have once again pieced together the story of a small coal mining community in southwestern Wyoming and its two even smaller neighbors, Blazon and Star Mine. Gathering information from all quarters-oral histories, historical records, photos from the archives and from family collections and newspaper accounts- and weaving it together into the cloth of a memorable story that has been all but lost until now. Here, in Glencoe, Spelling Out Western Coal Camp History, the past has been made whole and available to anyone who values the story of the people who have contributed to the history of Wyoming and, indeed, the country.
Monarch's Reign
Author: Leon WashutPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979287190
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"The West is famous for its ghost towns. Monarch is one of those towns with a coal mining history. After operating for 50 years, the Monarch mine closed in 1953. The mine was sealed and the town vacated, leaving its residents unemployed and mourning the lost of their community. Even though only a few structures are still visible, the spirit of Monarch still reigns in the hearts of those who worked, lived, and played along the banks of the Tongue River. The energy industry in Wyoming has experienced many times of boom and bust. Underground coal mining was no exception. There is little evidence of the mines the once operated in Sheridan County, Wyoming. However, during the first half of the 20th century their coal production supported the nation's growing demand for energy. This book explores one of these mines, Monarch, from its early development through the closing of the mine and the abandonment of the town." -- Back cover.
Industrializing the Rockies
Author: David A. WolffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In "Industrializing the Rockies," David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
Rocky Mountain Heartland
Author: Duane A. SmithPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is a lively history of three Rocky Mountain states in the twentieth century. With the sure hand of an experienced writer and the engaging voice of a veteran storyteller, the well-known historian Duane A. Smith recounts the major social, political, and economic events of the period with verve and zest. Smith is thoroughly familiar with his subject and has a genuine enthusiasm for the history of the region. Written with the general reader in mind, Rocky Mountain Heartland will appeal to students, teachers, and “armchair historians” of all ages. This is the colorful saga of how the Old West became the New West. Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century and concluding after the turn of the twenty-first, Rocky Mountain Heartland explains how Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming evolved over the course of the century. Smith is mindful of all the factors that propelled the region: mining, agriculture, water, immigration, tourism, technology, and two world wars. And he points out how the three states responded in varying ways to each of these forces. Although this is a regional story, Smith never loses sight of the national events that influenced events in the region. As Smith skillfully shows, the vast natural resources of the three states attracted optimistic, hopeful Americans intent on getting rich, enjoying the outdoors, or creating new lives for themselves and their families. How they resolved these often-conflicting goals is the modern story of the Rocky Mountain region.
Mill & Mine
Author: Howard Lee ScamehornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Coal; Its Antiquity, Discovery and Early Development in the Wyoming Valley
Author: George Brubaker KulpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Forgotten Frontier
Author: A. Dudley GardnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780367003821
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This work reflects part of the history of Wyoming coal mining. Much more needs to be written. To those that have produced written histories, historical overviews, and manuscripts we cited here, we extend thanks. To the archaeologists and historians who are studying Wyoming's past and attempting to preserve its lasting legacy, we applaud your efforts. The flight of time is not complete, but the history that has passed shows coal miners will be a part of the future. To those that are attempting to preserve the mining history of Wyoming and the West, we are grateful. And to men such as Steven Creasman and Gary Beach, who have the courage to dream and the willingness to persevere in attempting to save America's past, thank you. With the help of such unselfish individuals this work has been strengthened, but the responsibilities of accuracy fall to the authors alone.
Transforming the Twentieth Century
Author: Vaclav SmilPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances. The history of the 20th century is rooted in amazing technical advances of 1871-1913, but the century differs so remarkably from the preceding 100 years because of several unprecedented combinations. The 20th century had followed on the path defined during the half century preceding the beginning of World War I, but it has traveled along that path at a very different pace, with different ambitions and intents. The new century's developments elevated both the magnitudes of output and the spatial distribution of mass industrial production and to new and, in many ways, virtually incomparable levels. Twentieth century science and engineering conquered and perfected a number of fundamental challenges which remained unresolved before 1913, and which to many critics appeared insoluble. This book is organized in topical chapters dealing with electricity, engines, materials and syntheses, and information techniques. It concludes with an extended examination of contradictory consequences of our admirable technical progress by confronting the accomplishments and perils of systems that brought liberating simplicity as well as overwhelming complexity, that created unprecedented affluence and equally unprecedented economic gaps, that greatly increased both our security and fears as well as our understanding and ignorance, and that provided the means for greater protection of the biosphere while concurrently undermining some of the key biophysical foundations of life on Earth. Transforming the Twentieth Century will offer a wide-ranging interdisciplinary appreciation of the undeniable technical foundations of the modern world as well as a multitude of welcome and worrisome consequences of these developments. It will combine scientific rigor with accessible writing, thoroughly illustrated by a large number of appropriate images that will include historical photographs and revealing charts of long-term trends.