Western Mining History
#1
Posted 09 June 2006 - 04:31 PM
http://www.westernmininghistory.com/
#2
Posted 24 March 2007 - 11:49 AM
#3
Posted 26 March 2007 - 02:30 AM
http://www.custerstrail.com/
Regards, Dusty
#4
Posted 26 March 2007 - 10:02 PM
Several years ago, my daughter was working for the National Forest Service in the West and was assigned the task of documenting mines and recording GPS coordiants. Original mine claim records were the source documents. I think she wrote a paper on this work that was circulated through the Forest Service managment. She found mining camps complete with canned food, clothing, tools (even womens high heeled shoes), as if miners had been there yesterday. From the remoteness, difficult access, and undisturbed appearance, some of these camps have not been visited for a hundred years. The Forset Service knows where a lot of this stuff is located. A serious historian might find them helpful.
What states was she working in?
#5
Posted 26 March 2007 - 10:02 PM
I'm in Gillette, WY on a job and got interested in Deadwood. Here's a book about how George Custer led an expedition to the Black Hills that discovered gold near Deadwood. The book is in the library here. Here's a terrific website about the book...
http://www.custerstrail.com/
Regards, Dusty
Thanks for the link Dusty. I would like to read that book sometime.
#6
Posted 27 March 2007 - 04:28 AM
#7
Posted 28 April 2007 - 04:43 PM
http://www.origsix.com/
they "broke into the candy store" a few years back and really hit it big...again. the things been running for...a million years.
#8
Posted 01 May 2007 - 11:13 PM
are you familiar with the mines up around malakoff diggings? such as the Sixteen-to-One?
http://www.origsix.com/
they "broke into the candy store" a few years back and really hit it big...again. the things been running for...a million years.
I wasn't familiar with that mine. Very interesting! I'll have to try to make a trip down there sometime.
#9
Posted 02 May 2007 - 06:06 PM
the earth is perforated.
#10
Posted 06 May 2007 - 02:53 PM
I lived in North San Juan until I was 9. Great place to be as a kid. Still go back from time to time and say hi to the few people that I still know in the area.
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