Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 18601910 - Mining the American West - Kent Curtis - Books - University Press of Colorado - 9781607322344 - July 15, 2013
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Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 18601910 - Mining the American West


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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.


288 pages, 22 b/w photos, 3 line drawings & 4 maps

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 15, 2013
ISBN13 9781607322344
Publishers University Press of Colorado
Pages 252
Dimensions 236 × 161 × 23 mm   ·   484 g

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