Example Periodicals and Journals

Coal Age;
Engineering and Mining Journal, New York City;
Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco;
Los Angeles Mining Review;
Black Hills Mining Review, Deadwood, South Dakota;
Mining Reporter, Denver;
Salt Lake Mining Review, Salt Lake City;
The School of Mines Quarterly, New York City;
Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, New York City, 1871-1919.

Books

Abbe, Donald R. Austin and the Reese River Mining District, Nevada's Forgotten Frontier. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1985.

Alanen, Arnold R. "Documenting the Physical and Social Characteristics of Mining and Resource-Based Communities," APT Bulletin, v. XI (1979), pp. 49-68.

Axford, H. William. Gilpin County Gold, Peter McFarlane 1848-1929, Mining Entrepreneur in Central City, Colorado. Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., 1976.

Barker, Leo R. and Ann E. Huston, ed. Death Valley to Deadwood; Kennecott to Cripple Creek, Proceedings of the Historic Mining Conference January 23-27, 1989, Death Valley National Monument. San Francisco: National Park Service, 1990.

Basalla, George. The Evolution of Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Brown, Ronald C. Hard Rock Miners: The Intermountain West, 1860-1920. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1979.

Brown, Sharon A. Historic Resource Study, Cambria Iron Company. Denver: National Park Service, 1989.

Cash, Joseph H. Working the Homestake. Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1973.

Caughey, John Walton. Gold is the Cornerstone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948.

Christiansen, Paige W. The Story of Mining in New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Scenic Trips to the Geological Past No. 12. Socorro: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.

Cleland, Robert Glass. A History of Phelps Dodge, 1834-1950. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

Dix, Keith. What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.

Eller, Ronald D. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers, Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

Elliott, Russell R. Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom, Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1966.

Fatout, Paul. Meadow Lake, Gold Town. 1969. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1974.

Fay, Albert H. A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Indursty, U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin 95. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1920.

Fell, James E., Jr. Ores to Metals, The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Francaviglia, Richard V. Hard Places. Reading the Landscapes of America's Historic Mining Districts. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

Graebner, William. Coal Mining Safety in the Progressive Period. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1976.

Greever, William S. The Bonanza West, the Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.

Hardesty, Don L. The Archeology of Mining and Miners: A View from the Silver State. Special Publication Series, No. 6. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Society for Historical Archeology, 1988.

Hayward, Carle R. An Outline of Metalurgical Practice. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1929. One of many textbooks on metallurgy.

Hogan, Richard. Class and Community in Frontier Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Holliday, J.S. The World Rushed In, the California Gold Rush Experience. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Hunt, William R. North of 53, the Wild Days of the Alaska - Yukon Mining Frontier. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1974.

Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1988.

Jackson, W. Turrentine. Treasure Hill, Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1963.

Jensen, Vernon H. Heritage of Conflict, Labor Relations in the Nonferrous Metals Industry up to 1930. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1950.

King, Joseph E. A Mine to Make a Mine: Financing the Colorado Mining Industry, 1859-1902. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1977.

Lankton, Larry. Cradle to Grave. Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Lingenfelter, Richard E. Death Valley and the Armargosa, A Land of Illusion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Lingenfelter, Richard E. The Hardrock Miners, A History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863-1893. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Livingston-Little, D. E. An Economic History of North Idaho, 1800- 1900. Los Angeles: Journal of the West, 1965.

Long, Priscilla, Where the Sun Never Shines, A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

Lord, Eliot. Comstock Mining and Miners. 1883. Reprint. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1959.

Malone, Michael P. The Battle for Butte, Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.

Molloy, Peter M. The History of Metal Mining and Metallurgy: An Annoted Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1986.

Marcosson, Isaac F. Anaconda. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957.

Marcosson, Isaac F. Metal Magic, the Story of the American Smelting & Refining Company. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949.

Martin, Patrick. "Perspective of the Historical Archeologist," in Jeff Buechler, ed., Proceedings of the Workshop on Historic Mining Resources, Defining the Research Questions for Evaluation and Preservation. Vermillion, South Dakota: State Historic Preservation Center, 1988.

McGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters, Highwaymen & Vigilantes, Violence on the Frontier. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Mulholland, James A., A History of Metals in Colonial America. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981.

Niebur, Jay E. Arthur Redman Wilfley, Miner, Inventor, and Entrepreneur. Western Business History Research Center, Colorado Historical Society, nd.

Parker, Watson. Deadwood, the Golden Years. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Parker, Watson. Gold in the Black Hills. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.

Paul, Rodman W. California Gold, the Beginning of Mining in the Far West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, A Bison Book, 1947.

Paul, Rodman Wilson. Mining Frontiers of the Far West 1848-1880. Histories of the American Frontier. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1963.

Peele, editor. The Mining Engineers Handbook. New York, 1918, various editions.

Rickard, T. A. The Stamp Milling of Gold Ores. New York: The Scientific Publishing Company, 1898.

Ringholtz, Raye C. Uranium Frenzy, Boom and Bust on the Colorado Plateau. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1989.

Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Aspen, The History of a Silver Mining Town. New York: Oxford University Press, l986.

Sinclair, Upton. King Coal. 1921.

Smith, Duane A. Horace Tabor, His Life and the Legend. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1981.

Smith, Duane A. Mining America, The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.

Smith, Duane A. Rocky Mountain Mining Camps, the Urban Frontier. 1967.

Smith, Grant H. The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920. University of Nevada Bulletine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3. Geology and Mining Series No. 37. July 1, 1943.

Spence, Clark C. The Conrey Placer Mining Company, A Pioneer Gold-Dredging Enterpriste in Montana, 1897-1922. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1989.

---------------- Mining Engineers & the American West: The Lace Boot Brigade, 1849-1933. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.

----------------- "Western Mining," in Michael P. Malone, ed., Historians and the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Sprague, Marshall. Money Mountain, the Story of Cripple Creek Gold. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1953. Reprint. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.

Suggs, George. Colorado's War on Militant Unionism. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.

Temin, Peter. Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America: An Economic Inquiry. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964.

Trimble, William Joseph. The Mining Advance into the Inland Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1909. Reprint. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986.

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens). Roughing It. 1869.

Voynick, Stephen. Leadville, a Miner's Epic. Missoula: Mountain Press publishing Company, 1984.

Walker, Joseph E. Hopewell Village, The Dynamics of a Nineteenth Century Iron-Making Community. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966.

Wallace, Anthony F. C.. St. Clair, A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Wells, Merle W. Gold Camps & Silver Cities, Nineteenth Century Mining in Central and Southern Idaho. Reprint. Boise: Idaho State Historical Society, 1983.

Wyman, Mark. Hard Rock Epic, Western Miners in the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Young, Otis E., Jr. Western Mining, an Informal Account of Precious Metal Prospecting, Placering, Lode Mining, and Milling on the American Frontier from Spanish Times to 1893. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.