Which Town Is A Mining Town

Author : Cecile Page Vargo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595209
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cerro Gordo written by Cecile Page Vargo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.

Author : Staci Comden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738599530
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining Towns of Southern Colorado written by Staci Comden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images from the archives of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806120843
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps written by Sandra Dallas and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom

Author : James E. Sherman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806108438
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Towns of Arizona written by James E. Sherman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1969-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial survey of the past history of more than one hundred former mining towns in Arizona

Author : Winona I Laird
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462806090
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Have you ever Lived in a Mining Town? written by Winona I Laird and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Mining Towns could be friendly and home to a family Park City, Utah and Victor, Colorado a mining town near Cripple Creek provided home and friends to Anna Chambers. This book brings all the warmth of yesteryear alive with her tales of growing up in a mining town. Anna Chambers relates exciting tales about a fire that destroyed a section of town and left her house smoking but unburned. Other tales are sad, like the desperate father of a 10-month old girl whose mother has died asking her parents to take the girl. You read about social parties, courting and falling in love. This book provides a snapshot of life hundred years ago when $4.00 a day was top wage in the mines. It is full of details, things like growing vegetables and storing food. Anna tells tenderly of meeting her husband, his courtship of her, and then their life together. You hear about their joy when she finds herself expecting her first child and the sad news in the mine were too much for her husband’s lungs. More freedom and joy then we can imagine!

Author : David Robertson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457109646
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard As the Rock Itself written by David Robertson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized in scholarly and literary works as derelict, as sources of debasing moral influence, and as scenes of environmental decay - have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction. Robertson documents the history of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Colorado; and Picher, Oklahoma, from the mineral discovery phase through mine closure, telling for the first time how these century-old mining towns have survived and how sense of place has played a vital role. Acknowledging the hardships that mining's social, environmental, and economic legacies have created for current residents, Robertson argues that the industry's influences also have contributed to the creation of strong, cohesive communities in which residents have always identified with the severe landscape and challenging, but rewarding way of life. Robertson contends that the tough, unpretentious appearance of mining landscapes mirrors qualities that residents value in themselves, confirming that a strong sense of place in mining regions, as elsewhere, is not necessarily wedded to an attractive aesthetic or even to a thriving economy.

Author : Emerald Beisch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Which Town Is A Mining Town written by Emerald Beisch and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining Industry Overview How Are Mining Towns Similar To Other Towns 10 Authentic Old West Towns in Colorado History Of Mining: Mining Towns American West Explore Colorado's most fascinating gold rush towns 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.

Author : Lawrence P. Gooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567150827
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lyon Mountain written by Lawrence P. Gooley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295972541
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining Town written by Patricia Hart and published by . This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Henry Landis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Iron Mining Towns written by Paul Henry Landis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A digest of the observations and conclusions on three Mesabi iron range towns.