Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 18601910

by Kent Curtis

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. Employing abundant new historical evidence in key primary and secondary sources, Curtis tells the story of the inescapable relationship of mining to nature in the modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160732234X
• ISBN13: 9781607322344
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 19 years and up