Author: Carol March McLernon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738551999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
East of the Mississippi River, and just north of the Illinois-Wisconsin border, the soil was once fertile with huge deposits of lead and zinc. White men discovered these riches in the early 1800s, well before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Miners, farmers, and merchants flocked to the region, some bringing along their families. Towns with names like Snake Digs, Cottonwood, and Etna grew very rapidly. Roads, bridges, and railroad tunnels soon connected these towns where schools, churches, and businesses developed. Today tourists are invited to visit museums, mines, and shops in the region to explore its colorful past.
Lead-Mining Towns of Southwest Wisconsin
Author: Carol March McLernon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738551999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
East of the Mississippi River, and just north of the Illinois-Wisconsin border, the soil was once fertile with huge deposits of lead and zinc. White men discovered these riches in the early 1800s, well before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Miners, farmers, and merchants flocked to the region, some bringing along their families. Towns with names like Snake Digs, Cottonwood, and Etna grew very rapidly. Roads, bridges, and railroad tunnels soon connected these towns where schools, churches, and businesses developed. Today tourists are invited to visit museums, mines, and shops in the region to explore its colorful past.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738551999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
East of the Mississippi River, and just north of the Illinois-Wisconsin border, the soil was once fertile with huge deposits of lead and zinc. White men discovered these riches in the early 1800s, well before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Miners, farmers, and merchants flocked to the region, some bringing along their families. Towns with names like Snake Digs, Cottonwood, and Etna grew very rapidly. Roads, bridges, and railroad tunnels soon connected these towns where schools, churches, and businesses developed. Today tourists are invited to visit museums, mines, and shops in the region to explore its colorful past.
Wisconsin's Past and Present
Author: Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299159405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The atlas features historical and geographical data, including full-color maps, descriptive text, photos, and illustrations.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299159405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The atlas features historical and geographical data, including full-color maps, descriptive text, photos, and illustrations.
Mineral Point
Author: George Fiedler
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780870206900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of the town of Mineral Point from its origins to the mid-twentieth century.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780870206900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of the town of Mineral Point from its origins to the mid-twentieth century.
Bedrock, Surficial, and Economic Geology of the Sunnyside Coal-mining District, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah
Author: Frank W. Osterwald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Description of the geologic setting and economic petential of an east-central Utah coal-mining district.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Description of the geologic setting and economic petential of an east-central Utah coal-mining district.
The Making of a Mining District
Author: David J. Krause
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A critical examination of the people and events that led to the gradual recognition of the mining potential of the unique native copper deposits of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, which culminated in the first great mining boom in American history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A critical examination of the people and events that led to the gradual recognition of the mining potential of the unique native copper deposits of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, which culminated in the first great mining boom in American history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Geology of Part of the Alder Creek Mining District Custer County, Idaho
Author: Willis Howard Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Discusses the relationships between the ore deposits and the intrusive and metamorphic rocks of the Alder Creek mining district.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Discusses the relationships between the ore deposits and the intrusive and metamorphic rocks of the Alder Creek mining district.
Geology of the Cuba City, New Diggings, and Shullsburg Quadrangles Wisconsin and Illinois
Author: Thomas Ellison Mullens
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey.
Mining and Engineering World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Mining Rights on the Public Domain
Author: Robert Stewart Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Nigger
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307538915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307538915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?