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Recent Publications on the History of Mining Compiled by Lysa Wegman-French The following bibliography contains books, dis- silver mines, the Palmilla mine near Parral in the sertations and theses, articles and chapters of books, state of Chihuahua.] and other media—organized within those four categories—that relate to the history of all types Arroyo Leyva, Ana María. Minería en el Real of mining in North America (that is, Canada, the de Temascaltepec en el Último Cuarto del Siglo United States, and Central America). It does not XVIII: La Compañía Refaccionaria de la Mina de include book review articles. Agua, 1784-1792 [Mining in the Royal of Temas- Digital capabilities are changing our options for caltepec in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Cen- seeing works of interest. Some films and printed tury: The Refinery Company of the Water Mine, works are also available for viewing on the inter- 1784-1792]. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional net. We haven’t included URLs for these, but de Antropología e Historia, 2011. [Covers silver check the internet for their availability. More- mining in Mexico.] over, some articles are available only on the inter- net; for these we have included the URL. In ad- Bamonte, Tony, and Suzanne Bamonte. The dition, many older books are now being reissued Coeur D’ Alenes Gold Rush and Its Lasting Legacy. as e-books, and older films are being distributed as Spokane: Tornado Creek Publications, 2017. DVDs. We did not include them in this compila- tion since the content is not new. However, if you Basso, Matthew, and John Perry Christensen. are interested in an older work, check to see if it The Way Utah Worked. Salt Lake City: Utah Hu- is now available as an e-book or DVD (WorldCat. manities, 2017. [Includes chapters on miners’ org is a good source for this information). labor unions and on miner and folk hero Rafael We thank all the members who have sent in Lopez.] contributions, and welcome suggestions for our next compilation. Beatty, Edward. Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. Berkeley: University Books: of California Press, 2015. [Also an e-book. Using the cyanide process for gold and silver processing Adams, Sean Patrick (ed.). The American Coal as an example, this book explores a central para- Industry, 1790–1902 (3 vols.). London: Picker- dox of economic growth in nineteenth-century ing and Chatto, 2013. [Also an e-book.] Mexico.] Álvarez Rodríguez, Gloria Angélica, and Al- Birch, Jesse, and Will Holder (eds.). Black fonso Pacheco Hernández. Palacio Alvarado: La Diamond Dust. Nanaimo, BC: Nanaimo Art Gal- Casa de un Minero [Alvarado Palace: The House lery, 2016. [Expands a Nanaimo, BC, exhibition of a Miner]. Chihuahua: Instituto Chihuahuense that examined the history of coal mining through de la Cultura, 2014. [Mining magnate Pedro Al- artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and varado Torres operated one of Mexico’s richest archival images.] 75 Boles, Frank. Sailing into History: Great e-book. Depicts Latin America’s place in global Lakes Bulk [Ore] Carriers of the Twentieth Centu- history via its cultural history, from soccer play- ry and the Crews Who Sailed Them. East Lansing: ers to pop singers, coffee producers, and copper Michigan State University Press, 2017. [Also an miners.] e-book.] Bryant, Jerry L., and Barbara Fifer. Deadwood Booker, Matthew Morse. Down by the Bay: [South Dakota] Saints and Sinners. Helena, Mon- San Francisco’s History between the Tides. Berke- tana: Farcountry Press, 2016. ley: University of California Press, 2013. [Also an e-book. Includes his argument that hydraulic Butler, Paula. Colonial Extractions: Race and mining for gold in the Sierras sent millions of tons Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa. To- of soil and rock into the bay, where habitat never ronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. [Also recovered.] an e-book. Includes a chapter on historic colonial encounters between mining and First Nations Botkin, Jane Little. Frank Little and the people in Canada regarding resource ownership IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Fami- and racial dominance.] ly. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. Botkin chronicles the life of her Canales, Carlos, and Miguel del Rey. El Oro great-granduncle, lynched in Butte, Montana, in de America: Galeones, Flotas y Piratas [The Gold 1917, in the context of labor activism and the first of America: Galleons, Fleets and Pirates]. (Cróni- Red Scare.] cas de la Historia [Chronicles of History Series].) Madrid: Editorial Edaf, 2016. Bowen, Margaret Casterline, and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles. Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland Caño Ortigosa, José Luis. Guanajuato en Company’s Trek to California, 1849. Norman: Vísperas de la Independencia: La Élite Local en University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. [Also an e- el Siglo XVIII [Guanajuato on the Eve of Inde- book.] pendence: The Local Elite in the 18th Century]. Guanajuato, Mexico: Universidad de Guanajuato, Boyd, Rognvald, et al. (eds.). Mineral Re- 2011. [Examines officials of the Caja Real, who sources in the Arctic: An Introduction. Trondheim: frequently served as mediators between miners Geological Survey of Norway, 2016. [Also an e- and the Crown.] book. Includes brief discussions of the history of mining in Arctic Canada and Alaska.] Carson, Dina C. Boulder County, Colorado Surveys and Mineral Claims at the General Land Bronson, Bennet, and Chuimei Ho. Coming Office, 1859-1876: An Annotated Index. Niwot, Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in Early North- CO: Iron Gate Publishing, 2017. west America. Seattle: Chinese in Northwest American Research Committee, 2015. [Also Carte, Rebecca A. Capturing the Landscape of published as 衣锦梦还乡情: 金山西北角早期 New Spain: Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra 华人社会.] Expedition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. [The expedition traveled to the mining Brown, Matthew. From Frontiers to Football: frontier in Northern Mexico.] An Alternative History of Latin America since 1800. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. [Also an 76 2017 Mining History Journal Chambless, Philip, and Mike Ryan. The Great Dodds, Betty Bettencourt. The McClelland American Turquoise Rush: 1890-1910. Santa Fe: Civil War Letters: A Pittsburgh Family from 1861 Sunstone Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] to 1865. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2014. [Includes letters from Tom McClelland, who Chapman, James H. The Deep River Coal- traveled west to the future territory of Arizona field: Two Hundred Years of Mining in Chatham with the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company County, North Carolina. Jefferson, NC: McFar- in early 1861.] land, 2017. Doppen, Frans H. Richard L. Davis and the Chase, Rachelle. Lost Buxton [Iowa]. (Im- Color Line in Ohio Coal: A Hocking Valley Mine ages of America.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub- Labor Organizer, 1862-1900. (Contributions to lishing, 2017. [In the early nineteenth century, Southern Appalachian Studies.) Jefferson, NC: this town and the Consolidated Coal Company McFarland, 2016. were racially integrated when other places were segregated.] Eilers, David. Slag and the Golden Age of Lead-Silver Ore: The Eilers Family from Immi- Collins, Jan MacKell. Lost Ghost Towns of grants to Smelting Magnates, Culminating in their Teller County [Colorado]. Charleston, SC: His- 1920s Fight against the Guggenheims. Charleston, tory Press, 2016. [Also an e-book.] SC: David Eilers, 2016. Coppock, Gary F., and Heberling Associ- Elliott, Brian. Tracing Your Coalmining An- ates. Valentines and Thomas, Ironmasters of Cen- cestors: A Guide for Family Historians. Barnsley, tral Pennsylvania: Phase III Archaeological Data South Yorkshire, England: Pen and Sword Family Recovery, The Valentine Iron Ore Washing Plant History, 2014. [Also an e-book.] (36CE526). Alexandria, PA: Heberling Associ- ates, Inc., 2012. Fairchild, James L., and Russell L. Kalden- berg. Around Trona and Searles Valley [Califor- Deneault, Alain, and William Sacher. Impe- nia]. (Images of America.) Charleston, SC: Ar- rial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the cadia Publishing, 2015. [Also an e-book.] World’s Mining Industries. Vancouver: Talon- books, 2012. [Also an e-book and published as Fenoglio Limón, Fiorella. La Minería en Paradis sous Terre: Comment le Canada est devenu la Cultura Chalchihuites: Un Modelo para Ar- la Plaque Tournante de l’Industrie Minière Mon- mar [Mining in the Chalchihuites Culture: A diale (French). Why are 75 percent of the world’s Model to Build]. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacio- mining corporations registered in Canada? The nal de Antropología e Historia, 2011. [Focuses history of Canada’s questionable stock exchanges on pre-Columbian mining methods, the pan-re- provides a partial answer.] gional trade network, and the Chalchihuites’ so- ciopolitical and cultural organization in Zacate- Dobson, Robert D. The Second History of cas, Mexico.] Ishpeming, Michigan, 1920 through the 1954 Cen- tennial. Negaunee, MI: Dobson Publications, Ferguson, Cody. This is Our Land: Grassroots 2015. [The author compiled the iron mining Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century. town’s history as reported in its newspaper.] New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Recent Publications on the History of Mining 77 2015. [Also an e-book. Presents three case stud- Mining of the Royal Court; the book details the ies regarding mining in Montana, Arizona, and history of its construction and the changes the Tennessee.] building has undergone.] Fors, Hjalmar. The Limits of Matter: Chem- Hairr, John. Coal Mine Disasters of North istry, Mining and Enlightenment. Chicago: Uni- Carolina. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2017. versity of Chicago Press, 2015. Hanusa, George L. Out of the Mud: How a Foster, John F. Victims of the Herrin Massacre: Rural Coal Mining Settlement Became the City of The Dead and Survivors of the Herrin Mine War Windsor Heights. [Windsor Heights, IA:] WH of June 21st and 22nd, 1922. [Herrin: John F Publishing Group, 2016. Foster], 2015. [Twenty-three non-union laborers were murdered in the Illinois coal-mining area.] Harbert, Charles Armon. Bachelor, Colorado: History of a San Juan Mining Ghost Town.