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The mechanics of optimism mining companies, technology, and the Hot Spring gold rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
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The mechanics of optimism [electronic resource] : mining companies, technology, and the Hot Spring gold rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868 / Jeffrey J. Safford.
ISBN
1607321025
9781607321026
0870817825 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1607321017
9781607321019
Published
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2004. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 185 p. :) ill., maps ;
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 U.S. Regional Studies Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Patterns of discovery, 1863-1864
Mills to Montana, 1865, I : the Ragland, Cope, and Napton Mining Company of Boonville, Missouri, and the New York and Montana Mining and Discover Company of New York City, New York
Mills to Montana, 1865, II : the Clark and Upson, and the Nelson Mining companies of Hartford, Connecticut
Further development of the district, 1866 : the Herschel Mining Company of Virginia City, Montana, the Golden Ore Mining & Prospecting Company of Montana (Brooklyn, New York), and Hall and Spaulding of Meadow Creek, Montana
Expansion of the district and new investors, 1866 : the Midas Mining Company of Rochester, New York
The Midas Mining Company, 1867
Increased competition and doubt, 1867 : the McAndrew and Wann Mining Company of New York City, New York
The mood in the district, autumn 1867
Decline of the district, 1868.
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