Book ID: CBB878190248

A history of gold dredging in Idaho (2016)

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Spence, Clark C. (Author)


University Press of Colorado


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 331
Language: English

A revolution in placer mining from inception in the 1880s until its demise in the 1960s and its impact on Idaho, the nation's fourth leading producer of dredged gold which provides a lens through which to observe the practice and history of gold dredging around the world. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Fredric L. Quivik
Mix, Michael C.
Waite, Thornton
Christopher W. Merritt
Paul J. White
Viney, Mike
Journals
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Technology and Culture
Social History of Medicine
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Agricultural History
Publishers
University of Washington Press
South Platte Press
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Pittsburgh Press
Rutgers University Press
Oregon State University Press
Concepts
Gold Mines and Mining
Industrial archaeology
Mines and mining
Placer mining
Tailings (Metallurgy)
Silver Mines and Mining
People
Orenstein, Alexander Jeremiah
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
Idaho (U.S.)
United States
Washington (state, U.S.)
California (U.S.)
Wyoming (U.S.)
Grand Teton National Park
Institutions
Union Pacific Railway Company
Yellowstone National Park
United States. National Park Service
United States. Forest Service
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