Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780874175462)

Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the Southern Mines - those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra - were also of importance in the development of California's mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrenc

Author: Ronald H. Limbaugh,Willard P. Fuller
ISBN-10: 0874175461
ISBN-13: 9780874175462
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.34w x 1.16d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1694