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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
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The Financier
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
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Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Atlantic Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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United States Investor
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Mining and Scientific Press
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Bibliography of Arizona
Author: Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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"This constitutes the third edition of the original catalogue issued by Dr. Munk in 1900 and 1908. The first contained a few hundred volumes, the second about 1000; the present includes several thousand items, and is accompanied by a subject index"--Foreword, page 11.
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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"This constitutes the third edition of the original catalogue issued by Dr. Munk in 1900 and 1908. The first contained a few hundred volumes, the second about 1000; the present includes several thousand items, and is accompanied by a subject index"--Foreword, page 11.
United States Investor and Promoter of American Enterprises
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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The Mining Record
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Engineering and Mining Journal
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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