Wilderness Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma

by Arrell M. Gibson

Book Overview

Within the first half of the twentieth century the so-called Tri-State mining district of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma experienced boom and bust. Comprising 1,200 square miles, this area was once the world's leading producer of zinc and lead ores. With Joplin, Missouri, as its financial, distribution, supply, and wholesale center, the district included bonanza fields at Galena and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806109904
• ISBN13: 9780806109909
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.