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Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine
The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike
University Press of Colorado
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States.
Mining Irish-American Lives
Western Communities from 1849 to 1920
University Press of Colorado
Eben Smith
The Dean of Western Mining
University Press of Colorado
David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history.
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies
Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century
By Christine Bradley and Duane A Smith
University Press of Colorado
The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed.
Industrializing the Rockies
Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
University Press of Colorado
In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
Mercury and the Making of California
Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890
University Press of Colorado
Mercury and the Making of California raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West.
Gambling on Ore
The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910
By Kent Curtis
University Press of Colorado
Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west.
Santa Rita del Cobre
A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico
University Press of Colorado
Originally known as El Cobre, the mining-military camp of Santa Rita del Cobre ultimately became the company town of Santa Rita, which after World War II evolved into an independent community. From the town's beginnings to its demise, its mixed-heritage inhabitants from Mexico and United States cultivated rich family, educational, religious, social, and labor traditions. Extensive archival photographs, many taken by officials of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, accompany the text, providing an important visual and historical record of a town swallowed up by the industry that created it.
Hard as the Rock Itself
Place and Identity in the American Mining Town
University Press of Colorado
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.
Yellowcake Towns
Uranium Mining Communities in the American West
University Press of Colorado
Yellowcake Towns provides a look at the supply side of the Atomic Age and serves as an important contribution to the growing bibliography of atomic history.
Silver Saga
The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
Revised and updated, Duane A. Smith's classic study of this important silver mining town is back in print.
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