Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
California Journal of Mines and Geology ... Quarterly Chapter of State Mineralogist's Report
Author: California. Division of Mines and Mining
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Report for 1917/18 consists of three monographs by E. MacBoyle issued separately as Mines and mineral resources of Nevada County. Mines and mineral resources of Plumas County. Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Report for 1917/18 consists of three monographs by E. MacBoyle issued separately as Mines and mineral resources of Nevada County. Mines and mineral resources of Plumas County. Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County.
Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau
Author: California State Mining Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
California Mines and Minerals
Author: California Miners' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A Golden State
Author: Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520217706
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520217706
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.
California Gold
Author: Rodman Wilson Paul
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Report of the Hydraulic Mining Commission Upon the Feasibility of the Resumption of Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: California. Hydraulic Mining Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic mining
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California
Author: Philip Ross May
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
Mining in California
Preliminary Report - California State Mining Bureau
Author: California State Mining Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description