Territorial politics and government in Montana, 1864-89

Politics & Social Sciences

Spence, Clark C.

Politics & Government

University of Illinois Press

The Northern Gold Fleet is the story of how new gold-dredging technology was applied to the rich placers of the Far North from 1899 to the present, leading to mass production and economies of scale that made previously unprofitable resources profitable. The bucket-ladder dredge was a single, complex apparatus that rivaled ocean freighters in size. At once ugly, spectacular, and awesome, the dredges dug, classified materials, and performed gold-saving and tailing-disposal functions. A richly illustrated and comprehensive history. The Northern Gold Fleet is part environmental, part technological, part corporate, part labor, and part Alaskan in its thrust, offering a picture - both dazzling and absorbing - of how new technology simultaneously helped build the economy and lay waste the resources of Alaska.

The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska

History

Americas

The Sinews of American Capitalism: an Economic History

Business & Money

Economics

MacMillan & Co., Ltd.

Montana: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)

Surveys the development of the state, bringing into view Montana's historical role as a key producer of furs, metals, cattle, and agricultural products and the contemporary concern with conservation of resources

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

At three times the size of Pennsylvania, with a county bigger than the whole state of Connecticut, Montana is a large place, once described as "bounded on the west by the Japan current, on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by Price's Army, and on the east by the Day of Judgement." Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story told in this engaging history.

W.W.Norton&Company

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier 1860–1901 V2 (The Rise of International Business)

Routledge

history of the farming collective of the Salvation Army

The Salvation Army Farm Colonies

Religion & Spirituality

University of Arizona Press

Placer mining companies revolutionized the mining industry during the late 19th century when they first put dredges to work on previously unprofitable ground. Using corporate papers held by Harvard University's Baker Library, Spence (history, U. of Illinois) recounts the story of one such company in Virginia City, Montana. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold Dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897-1922

Montana Historical Society

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901

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A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho tells the story of a revolution in placer mining—and its subsequent impact on the state of Idaho—from its inception in the early 1880s until its demise in the early 1960s. Idaho was the nation’s fourth-leading producer of dredged gold after 1910 and therefore provides an excellent lens through which to observe the practice and history of gold dredging. Author Clark Spence focuses on the two most important types of dredges in the state—the bucket-line dredge and the dragline dredge—and describes their financing, operation, problems, and effect on the state and environment. These dredges made it possible to work ground previously deemed untouchable because bedrock where gold collected could now be reached. But they were also highly destructive to the environment. As these huge machines floated along, they dumped debris that harmed the streams and destroyed wildlife habitat, eventually prompting state regulations and federal restoration of some of the state’s crippled waterways. Providing a record of Idaho’s dredging history for the first time, this book is a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of Western mining, its technology, and its overall development as a major industry of the twentieth century.

A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho (Mining the American West)

University Press of Colorado

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