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   California Gold: The Beginning of Mining in the Far West » Read Now

   by Rodman W. Paul. 380 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...twenty-five years of California gold mining that began with Marshalls discovery...twenty-five-year span, California gold mining passed through successive stages...Northern...
   
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   Pictures of Gold Rush California » Read Now

   by Milo Milton Quaife. 388 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...its earlier period. The task of mining gold was extraordinarily severe. Commonly...oftentimes it was vastly more. The mining of gold as followed by the...
   
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   American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture » Read Now

   by Brian Roberts. 324 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In ###American Alchemy#, however, Brian...

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   California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In ###American Alchemy#, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.

   Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners -- women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West -- he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture.

   Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage -- a rebellion against standards of respectability.

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   The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush » Read Now

   by Pierre Berton. 480 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...Panhandle, hardrock gold was discovered and the mining town of Juneau...responsible for the mining development of...series of smaller gold rushes into the...colonial...
   
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   Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon » Read Now

   by Michael Gates. 206 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...Gold discoveries. 2. Gold mines and mining -- Yukon River Valley Yukon and Alaska . 3. Gold mines and mining -- Yukon Territory...12 The Discovery of Gold in the...
   
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   Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold » Read Now

   by Marshall Sprague. 342 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...William, tackled every phase of gold and silver mining --placers, lodes, an early stamp...Ed talked a lot to Fred about gold mining and imbued him with the fever...Doyle...
   
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   The Environmental Impact of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana: Identifying Problems and Possible Solutions, in The Geographical Journal » Read Now

   by Gavin Hilson. 16 pgs.

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   ...environmental impact of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: identifying problems...environmental impact of small-scale gold mining in developing countries has...
   
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   Minerals and Migrants: How the Mining Industry Has Shaped South Africa, in Daedalus » Read Now

   by Francis Wilson. 23 pgs.

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   ...as the Union of South Africa. Gold mining, as the economic historians have...these processes were focused on the gold-mining industry itself. Consider what...This practice...
   
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   The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939 » Read Now

   by David Yudelman. 320 pgs.

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   ...3 Sources of Black Labor in Gold Mining, 1950-1979 268...5 Government Revenue from Gold Mining, 1971-1979 282...the mining industry, and of the gold mining industry in...
   
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    Ancestral Rain Forests and the Mountain of Gold: Indigenous Peoples and Mining in New Guinea » Read Now

    by David Hyndman. 208 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library

    ...Forests and the Mountain of Gold Indigenous Peoples and Mining in New Guinea David Hyndman...occupied in 1981 by the Ok Tedi gold and copper mining project. Since then...
    
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    An Analysis of the Implications for the Gold Mining Industry of Alternative Tax Policies: A Regional Disaggregated Model for Australia, in Economic Record » Read Now

    by Andrew Feltenstein. 9 pgs.

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    ...analysis of the implications for the gold mining industry of alternative tax policies...implications for the Australian gold mining industry, as well as for the...
    
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    Where All That Glitters is Not Gold: Crossroads of Mining Exploitation in the T'Boli Homeland, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now

    by Levita Duhaylungsod, David Hyndman. 13 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library

    ...the province of Davao del Norte. Gold mining is intensifying in Tboli municipality...Town, April 1991. Figure 3 . Gold mining and other capitalist invasions...exploration...
    
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    British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John D'El Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 » Read Now

    by Marshall C. Eakin. 342 pgs.

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    ...Introduction 1 1 Gold Mining in Minas Gerais 2...of Tables 1. British Gold-Mining Companies in Nineteenth-Century...nineteenth century. 4 Although gold mining had become a...
    
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    Gold: The Yellow Devil » Read Now

    by Andrei V. Anikin. 244 pgs.

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    The fascinating history of gold as a measure of value and a metal of money; analysis of its intrinsic economic meaning in class-divided societies; its historic role in the international monetary system.
    
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    Tarnishing the Earth: Gold Mining's Dirty Secret, in Environmental Health Perspectives » Read Now

    by Scott Fields. 8 pgs.

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    ...Tarnishing the earth: gold minings dirty secret by Scott Fields Gold mining may bring to mind images of grizzled...most environmentally responsible gold mining companies...
    
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    South Pass, 1868, James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush » Read Now

    by Lola M. Homsher, Janes Chisholm. 244 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library

    James Chisholm's journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, of torrential rain storms and night packing, of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, in business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, to hit the big one.