Recent Publications on the History of Mining

Compiled by Lysa Wegman-French

The following bibliography contains books, Includes Arizona copper mines, the Colorado dissertations and theses, articles and chapters of Coal Wars, and communist miners involved in books, and other media—organized within those the Cold War civil rights struggle.] four categories—that provide new content related to the history of all types of mining in North Allan, Chris. Arctic Odyssey: A History of America (that is, Canada, the United States, and the Koyukuk River Gold Stampede in Alaska’s Far Central America). It does not include book re- North. Fairbanks: National Park Service, Fair- view articles, nor reissued or subsequent editions banks Administrative Center, 2016. of material. Digital capabilities are changing our options for Ammons, Doug. A Darkness Lit by Heroes: seeing works of interest. Some films and printed The [Butte] Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine works are available for viewing on the internet. Disaster of 1917. Missoula: Water Nymph Press, We have not included URLs for these, but check 2017. the internet for their availability. Moreover, some articles are available only on the internet; for these Andrist, Ralph K. The Gold Rush. [Scotts we have included the URL. In addition, many old- Valley, CA]: CreateSpace Independent Publish- er books are now being reissued as e-books, and ing, 2016. [Also an e-book.] older films are being distributed as DVDs. We did not include them in this compilation since the Anschutz, Philip F. Out Where the West Be- content is not new. However, if you are interested gins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early West- in an older work, check to see if it is now available ern Business Leaders. Denver: Cloud Camp Press, as an e-book or DVD (WorldCat.org is a good 2015. [Conveys short biographies of Meyer source for this information). Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, George Hearst, We thank all the members who have sent in Spencer Penrose, and others.] contributions, and welcome suggestions for our next compilation. Avella, Steven M. Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism. Colum- bia: University of Missouri Press, 2016. [Includes Books: a discussion of the Sacramento Bee’s battle against hydraulic mining.] Akers Chácon, Justin. Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists Baldwin, Douglas. Cobalt: The Cradle of in the Mexican American Working Class. Chica- Hard Rock Mining in Canada. Cobalt, ON: go: Haymarket Books, 2018. [Also an e-book. White Mountain Publications, 2016. 96 2018 Mining History Journal

Bamonte, Tony. Historic Wallace, Idaho: Bezilla, Michael, and Luther Gette. Branch And My Unforeseen Ties. Spokane: Tornado Line Empires: The Pennsylvania and the New York Creek Publications, 2017. Central Railroads. Bloomington: Indiana Univer- sity Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. The two lines, Beaton, Meaghan Elizabeth. The Centennial among the country’s largest businesses, helped de- Cure: Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural velop central Pennsylvania as the nation’s largest Capital in Nova Scotia during Canada’s 1967 supplier of bituminous coal.] Centennial Celebrations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. The Cape Billings, Dwight B., and Ann E. Kingsolv- Breton (Coal) Miners’ Museum is one of four er. Appalachia in Regional Context. Lexington: projects discussed in the book.] University Press of Kentucky, 2018. [Also an e- book.] Beck, Bill, and Iron Range Resources and Re- habilitation Board. IRRRB at 75: Celebrating 75 Black, Megan. The Global Interior: Mineral Years on the [Minnesota] Iron Range, 1941-2016. Frontiers and American Power. Cambridge, MA: Virginia, MN: W. A. Fisher Co., 2016. Harvard University Press, 2018. [The U.S. De- partment of the Interior operates in indigenous Belanger, Pierre, and Nina-Marie Lister (eds.). lands (for example, coal mining on the Crow res- Extraction: Exhibition Catalog Venice Architec- ervation) but has also pursued minerals beyond ture Biennale, Canadian Exhibition 2016. Ven- U.S. borders.] ice: Opsys, 2016. [Investigates the architectures, histories, and political economies of Canada’s re- Braches, Fred. Fact and Fiction: Slumach and source extraction industry.] the Lost Creek Mine. Maple Ridge, BC: Whon- nock Books, 2017. Belanger, Pierre. Extraction Empire: Under- mining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Brackbill, Eleanor Phillips. The Queen of Global Resource Empire. Cambridge, MA: MIT Heartbreak Trail: The Life and Times of Harriet Press, 2018. Smith Pullen, Pioneering Woman [in Skagway, Alaska]. Guilford, CT: TwoDot, 2016. [Also an Beniquez, Lorena. Lost Coal Country of e-book.] Northeastern Pennsylvania. (Images of Modern America.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, Bradley, Christine A., and Duane A. Smith. 2017. [Also an e-book.] The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies: Georgetown, Colorado and the Fight for Survival Berman, David R. George Hunt: Arizona’s into the 20th Century. (Mining the American Crusading Seven-Term Governor. Tucson: Uni- West.) Boulder: University Press of Colorado, versity of Arizona Press, 2015. [Also an e-book. 2017. Includes his battles with mining interests.] Bridges, Edwin C. Alabama: The Making Best, Betty Warren. Ironwood [Michigan] of an American State. Tuscaloosa: University of Roots: Memories of the Upper Peninsula. Brass- Alabama Press, 2016. [Also an e-book. Includes a town, NC: Best Gearhart Knitting Machines, chapter on mines and mills, 1875 to 1914.] 2017. Recent Publications on the History of Mining 97

Brooks, David. Restoring the Shining Waters: Carpita, Myrna Shafer. Maggie . . . from Indi- Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana. Nor- ana to Montana: A Pioneer Woman’s Story. Dil- man: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. [Ar- lon, MT: Pioneer Publishing, 2016. [Fresh out of senic-laced waste from copper-mining operations high school in 1892, Maggie Halbert traveled to had accumulated behind the dam.] Wise River, Montana, to teach school in nearby rough-hewn and hastily built mining and ranch- Brown, Karida. Gone Home: Race and Roots ing communities.] through Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. [Also an e-book. Castellón Huerta, Blas Roman. Cuando Tells the story of Appalachian African Americans la Sal era una Joya: Antropología, Arqueología living and working in steel and coal towns.] y Tecnología de la Sal durante el Posclásico en Zapotitlán, Puebla [When Salt was a Jewel: An- Bruno, Lee. Misfits, Merchants and Mayhem: thropology, Archeology and Salt Technology dur- Tales from San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront, ing the Postclassic in Zapotitlán]. México, D.F.: 1849-1934. Petaluma, CA: Cameron, 2018. Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de An- tropología e Historia, 2016. Burke, Anthony. Uranium. Malden, MA: Polity, 2017. [Also an e-book. Though primar- Charles River Editors. The California Gold ily a geopolitical view, mining is discussed in one Rush: The History and Legacy of the Forty-Niners chapter.] and America’s Golden Dream. [Boston]: Charles River Editors, 2017. Burke, Flannery. A Land Apart: The South- west and the Nation in the Twentieth Century. Charles River Editors. The Klondike Gold Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. [Also Rush: The History of the Late 19th Century Gold an e-book. Chapter 7 focuses on “Boom Towns: Rush in Alaska and the Yukon. [Boston]: Charles The Nuclear Southwest.”] River Editors, 2017.

Burtchard, Greg C., Jacqueline Y. Cheung, Charles River Editors. The West Virginia Coal and Robert McIntyre. Mining Glacier Basin: His- Wars: The History of the 20th Century Conflict be- tory of the Glacier Basin Mining District, Mount tween Coal Companies and Miners. [Scotts Valley, Rainier National Park [Washington]. Ashford, CA]: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Plat- WA: National Park Service, Mount Rainier Na- form, 2016. tional Park, 2017. Clark, Ken. Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Campione, Bob. 1968 Farmington Mine Railroad. (Images of Rail.) Charleston, SC: Ar- Disaster. (Images of America.) Charleston, SC: cadia, 2016. [Provides information on the Shaw- Arcadia Publishing, 2016. [Also an e-book. mut (Coal) Mining Company in Pennsylvania.] Seventy-eight miners died after an explosion in a Consolidation Coal Company mine in West Vir- Cole, Wayne A. Coal Runners. (Vol. 13 of ginia; the accident served as a catalyst for several Ghost Rails.) Beaver Falls, PA: Cole-books, 2016. new laws to protect miners.] [Examines several rail lines in western Pennsylva- nia that existed primarily to bring coal from mines to major rail lines or to industrial sites.] 98 2018 Mining History Journal

Conarroe, Doug. 80026: An Illustrated His- Czambel, Gene, and Rand Gee. Forgotten tory of Lafayette, Colorado, 1829-1929. Lafayette: Mines and Coal Towns of Thoms Run: 1880 to 6000 Bees, 2017. [Includes descriptions of coal 1930, Collier Township, Allegheny County, Penn- mining in the area.] sylvania. Pentwater, MI: Rand Gee, 2018.

Conlogue, William. Undermined in Coal Daley, John, and Marlene Daley. History of Country: On the Measures in a Working Land. Taunton Bay: [Silver and Gold] Mining, Shipping, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. and Diving: Franklin, Hancock, and Sullivan, [Also an e-book. Explores how two overlapping Maine. Sullivan, ME: Galley Publishing, 2017. coal country landscapes—Scranton, Pennsylva- nia, and Marywood University—have coped with Dant, Sara. Losing Eden: An Environmental the aftermath of mining.] History of the American West. (Western History series.) Malden, MA: John Wiley and Sons, 2016. Corbeil, Laurent. The Motions Beneath: In- [Also an e-book.] digenous Migrants on the Urban Frontier of New Spain [1590 to 1630]. Tucson: University of Ari- Dieterich-Ward, Allen. Beyond Rust: Metro- zona Press, 2018. [Also an e-book. New silver politan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial Amer- mines around San Luis Potosí, Mexico, sparked ica. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania the need for labor; responding immigrants be- Press, 2016. [Also an e-book. Cities that sprang longed to ten linguistic groups.] up to support coal mines and steel mills were often centered on a single employer in a single Crawford, Alan Pell. How Not to Get Rich: industry, so often suffered when industry condi- The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain. Bos- tions changed.] ton: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. [Also an audio CD. Among his many bad investments, Duerden, Timothy J. Lewis Hine: Photogra- Mark Twain planned to strike it rich in soon-to- pher and American Progressive. Jefferson, NC: be failed mines.] McFarland, 2018. [His disturbing images of children at work in coal mines and other places trig- Crouch, Gregory. The Bonanza King: John gered the movement to end child labor.] Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West. New York: Scribner, 2018. Echenberg, Myron J. Humboldt’s Mexico: In [Also an e-book. Explores how Mackay gained a the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific fortune from Nevada’s Comstock Lode.] Traveller. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. After inspecting Crumrin, Timothy R. Til the Coal Train New Spain’s silver mines in Taxco, Pachuca, and Hauled It Away: A Memoir of the Rise and De- Guanajuato in the early 1800s, Humboldt wrote mise of a Small Town. Bloomington, IN: Author- favorably of their potential, helping to attract House, 2017. [West Terre Haute, Indiana, grew British investment, but he also highlighted the due to coal, clay, and gravel mining; when those deplorable working conditions of the miners and resources were depleted, a downward spiral be- their resulting poor health.] gan.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 99

Ellyn, Laura. Ginger Goodwin: A Worker’s Frazer, Lillian, and Christy Steele Frazer Friend. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015. [This (eds.). Wildflowers and Train Whistles. Bloom- graphic history presents the biography of the Brit- ington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2018. [Lillian Crone ish Columbian labor leader.] Frazer recalls her life as a coal camp kid in Min- den, West Virginia.] Elliott, Marie. Gold in British Columbia: Dis- covery to Confederation. Vancouver: Ronsdale, Fridlund, Paul. The Tragedy of May 10th, 2018. 1892: Explosion Kills 45 Coal Miners in Roslyn. Roslyn, WA: Roslyn Ronald Cle Elum Heritage Farley, Bill. James A. Murray: Butte’s Radical Club, 2017. Irish Millionaire. Missoula: Mountain Press Pub- lishing Company, 2018. Frye, Harriet. Tennessee’s Great Copper Basin. (Images of America.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Feather, Carl E. Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio: A Publishing, 2017. [Also an e-book.] History of the World’s Greatest Iron Ore Receiv- ing Port. Geneva, OH: Feather Cottage Media, Golding, Barry, and Suzanne D. Golding. En- 2017. ergy and Sustainability: The Story of Doctor Cop- per and King Coal. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Flandreau, Marc. Anthropologists in the Stock 2017. [Also an e-book.] Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. [Un- Gordon, Alan. Time Travel: Tourism and covers plots by early British anthropologists to use the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid- their scientific status to manipulate the stock mar- Twentieth-Century Canada. Vancouver: UBC ket. Includes Bedford Pim’s investments in min- Press, 2017. [Includes a discussion of the restora- ing companies in Nicaragua and statements about tion and reconstruction of Barkerville, part of the race and racial identity being tied to financial con- Cariboo, British Columbia, gold rush.] cerns.] Gray, Charlotte, and Catherine Huot. Or- Fountain, Bill, and Sandra F. Mather. Chas- pailleurs: Faire Fortune au Klondike [Gold Min- ing the Dream: John A. Traylor and the Royal Ti- ers: Making a Fortune at the Klondike]. [Québec]: ger Mines Company. Breckenridge, CO: Breck- Presses de l’Université Laval, 2016. [Also an e- enridge Heritage Alliance, 2017. [The company book.] operated from 1917 to the mid 1930s.] Greene, Ronald A. Carlo Gentile, [British Frank, V. Larry. Colorado’s Great Depression Columbian] Gold Rush Photographer, 1863-1866. Gold Rush: The Oliver Twist Tunnel. Lake City, Victoria, BC: Greene Frogge Press, 2015. CO: Western Reflections Publishing, 2017. [George and Robert Elder worked the old tunnel Grossman, Sarah E. M. Mining the Border- at thirteen thousand feet above sea level in Lead- lands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of ville’s mining district.] Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. 100 2018 Mining History Journal

Hackney, Joseph, and Tom Emery (eds.). “A Illing, Thora Kerr. Gold Rush Queen: The Ex- Rough Broken Country”: Diary of a Wagon Train to traordinary Life of Nellie Cashman. Victoria, BC: the California Gold Rush. [Springfield, IL]: Tom TouchWood Editions, 2016. [Also an e-book.] Emery, 2016. [Hackney kept a diary while on his six-month wagon train journey from Illinois to Isenberg, Andrew C. The California Gold Sacramento during the 1849 gold rush.] Rush: A Brief History with Documents. (Bedford Series in History and Culture.) Boston: Bedford/ Hague, Rick, and Sandra F. Mather. Windows St. Martin’s, 2018. to the Past: Summit Historical Society Fiftieth An- niversary. Dillon, CO: Summit [County] Histor- Jacobson, Mark I., and Gloria A. Staebler. The ical Society, 2016. [Includes silver and gold min- Denver Gem and Mineral Show: A Retrospective. ing around Breckenridge and Ten Mile Canyon.] Denver: Greater Denver Area Gem and Mineral Council, 2017. Harris, Wess (ed.). Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extrac- Jameson, W. C. The Lost Canyon of Gold: tion. Oakland, CA: PM Press; and Gay, West Vir- The Discovery of the Legendary Lost Adams Dig- ginia: Appalachian Community Services, 2017. gings [Greenlee County, Arizona]. Guilford, CT: [Also an e-book.] TwoDot, 2017. [Also an e-book.]

Herbert, Christopher. Gold Rush Manliness: Jessen, Kenneth. Frontier Colorado Gunfights: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope. (Emil and True Stories of Outlaws and Lawmen in the Ameri- Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History can West. Loveland, CO: J.V. Publications, 2017. and Biography.) Seattle: University of Washing- [Briefly describes Sheriff Cyrus “Doc” Shores ton Press, 2018. ending the 1891 Crested Butte coal strike with a shootout.] Himler, Martin, and Cathy Cassady Corbin (eds.). The Making of an American: The Autobiog- Johnson, Jean. Grit and Gold: The Death Val- raphy of a Hungarian Immigrant, Appalachian En- ley Jayhawkers of 1849. Reno: University of Ne- trepreneur, and OSS Officer. Knoxville: University vada Press, 2018. [On their way to the California of Tennessee Press, 2018. [The coal-mining entre- goldfields, the group became lost in the mountains preneur established the Himler Coal Company, and dry valleys of southern Nevada and California the small town of Himlerville, Kentucky, and the as winter descended.] weekly Hungarian Miners’ Journal.] Jordan, Lee, and Michael C. Hawfield. Stam- Hoyo Cabrera, Eugenio del, and Thomas Hill- pede!: Saints, Successes, Suckers and Scoundrels erkuss. Pleito de Mineros en Zacatecas, Siglo XVI of the Yukon Gold Rush. Chugiak, AK: Samson [Miners’ Lawsuits in Zacatecas in the Sixteenth Press, 2016. Century]. [Zacatecas, México]: Crónica del Es- tado de Zacatecas, 2016. Karmel, Jonathan D. Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace. Ithaca: Hulse, James W. A Great Basin Mosaic: The Cornell University Press, 2017. [Also an e- Culture of Rural Nevada. Reno: University of book.] Nevada Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. A chapter discusses copper mining in White Pine County.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 101

Kaunonen, Gary. Flames of Discontent: The Ruée vers l’Or]. Paris: RVB Books; and Ottawa: 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike. Minneapolis: Canadian Photography Institute / Institut Cana- University of Minnesota Press, 2017. [Also an e- dien de la Photographie, 2017. [Based on a 2018 book.] exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada in Ot- tawa.] Kenyon, Anthony. The Recorded History of the Liard Basin 1790-1910: Where British Co- Leech, Brian James. The City That Ate Itself: lumbia Joins the Yukon and N.W.T. Fort Nelson, Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. BC: Fort Nelson News, 2016. [One chapter is Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. [Also an based on a journal describing daily life journey- e-book.] ing up the thousand miles of frozen Liard River to the Klondike, dragging thousands of pounds of Linsteadt, Sylvia. Lost Worlds of the San Fran- weight on toboggans.] cisco Bay Area. Berkeley: Heyday, 2017. [Mount Diablo coal mines and the New Almaden Quick- Knowles, Josephine. Gold Rush in the Klond- silver Mine are included.] ike: A Woman’s Journey in 1898-99. Fresno, CA: Quill Driver Books, 2016. [Also an e-book. Lizzio, Ken. Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Knowles traced her arduous trip to the goldfields [California] Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Golds- in this detailed memoir.] borough Bruff. New York: The Countryman Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] Lai, Chuenyan David, and Ding Guo. Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumphs of Lorey, Frank. A Guide to the Gold Rush Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966. Half- Country of California. [Charleston, SC]: America moon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2016. through Time, 2017. [Covers the historic towns and mining locations near Highway 49, known as Langston, Nancy. Sustaining Lake Superior: California’s “Golden Highway.”] An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. [Also Lussana, Sergio A. My Brother Slaves: Friend- an e-book. Includes chapters on taconite iron ore ship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebel- mining.] lum South. (New Directions in Southern His- tory.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, La Torre, Filippo. Per un Pugno di Amianto: 2016. [Also an e-book. Devotes a few pages to L’Avventura di un Minatore Siciliano a Cassiar [For slaves working in mines.] a Fistful of Asbestos: The Adventure of a Sicilian Miner in Cassiar]. (Frammenti di Memoria, no Lydon, Patrick Perry. The Gold Will Speak for 55.) [Guidonia Montecelio, Italy]: Iacobelli Edi- Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown: Victoria’s Gold- tore, 2016. [La Torre recalls mining asbestos in rush. [Victoria, BC]: Lydon Shore Publishing, British Columbia from the 1960s.] 2013.

Lebart, Luce. Gold and Silver: Daguerréotypes, Mack, Sean R., Rita A. Miraglia, and Cindy Ambrotypes and Tintypes from the Gold Rush Williams. Legacy of the Banner Creek Railroad [of California and the Yukon] [Or et Argent: Station. [Nome]: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Daguerréotypes, Ambrotypes et Ferrotpyes de la Region, Branch of Regional Archeology, 2016. 102 2018 Mining History Journal

Maggor, Noam. Brahmin Capitalism: Fron- Mentz, Brigida von. Señoríos Indígenas y- Re tiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First ales de Minas en el Norte de Guerrero y Comarcas Gilded Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Vecinas: Etnicidad, Minería y Comercio: Temas de Press, 2017. [Briefly refers to elite Bostonians’ in- Historia Económica y Social del Periodo Clásico al vestments in mining in the West.] Siglo XVIII [Native Domains and Royal Mines in the North of Guerrero and Neighboring Districts: Magnaghi, Russsell M. Upper Peninsula of Ethnicity, Mining and Commerce: Issues of Eco- Michigan: A History. Marquette: 906 Heritage nomic and Social History from the Classical Period Publishing, 2017. to the Eighteenth Century]. México D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en An- Marks, Lynne. Infidels and the Damn Church- tropología Social, 2017. es: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Colum- bia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Mercedes, Teódulo Antonio. Minería -Do Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. Traces the origins minicana: Desarrollo Irracional [Dominican Min- of irreligion in B.C. to the unique character of the ing: Irrational Development]. (Publicaciones del region’s settler society.] Archivo General de la Nación, 290.) Santo Do- mingo, Dominican Republic: Archivo General de Marshall, Daniel Patrick. Claiming the Land: la Nación, 2017. British Columbia and the Making of a New El Do- rado. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2017. [Also an Merritt, Grant J. Iron and Water: My Life e-book. Set in the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, the Protecting Minnesota’s Environment. Minneapo- book focuses on the conflict between California lis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. [Also an gold miners and people of the fur trade (both na- e-book. As former head of the Minnesota Pollu- tive and Hudson’s Bay Company), while the Brit- tion Control Agency, and board member of the ish attempted to retain control in their colony.] Minnesota Environmental Quality Council, Mer- ritt goes behind the scenes of landmark legal cases McGirr, Lisa. The War on Alcohol: Prohibi- in Minnesota history, particularly the Reserve tion and the Rise of the American State. New York: Mining case. The author’s ancestors included the Norton, 2016. [In one section, the author wraps “Seven Iron Men,” who pioneered Mesabi Range together prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, evangeli- mining.] calism, prejudice against Italian immigrants, and the “Herrin Massacre,” in which striking Illinois Mickleburgh, Rod. On the Line: A History of coal miners, strikebreakers, guards, and managers the British Columbia Labour Movement. Madeira were killed.] Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2018.

Melillo, Edward Dallam. Strangers on Famil- Montana Standard, et al. Mining City Memo- iar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Con- ries: The Early Years. N.p.: Pediment Publishing, nection. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 2016. [Butte from the late 1800s through 1939 [Among many connections, the author discusses in historic photographs.] Chilean miners in the California gold rush and the attitude toward Latinos at that time.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 103

Mountford, Benjamin, and Stephen Tuffnell Otterstrom, Samuel. From California’s Gold (eds.). A Global History of Gold Rushes. (Califor- Fields to the Mendocino Coast: A Settlement His- nia World History Library 25.) Oakland: Uni- tory across Time and Place. Reno: University of versity of California Press, 2018. [Also an e-book. Nevada Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] The essays utilize the most current research meth- ods to explore gold rushes as connected phenom- Peterson, Charles S., and Brian Q. Cannon. ena and emphasize their destructive power on in- The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the digenous communities and the environment.] Nation, 1896-1945. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. Moya Pons, Frank. El Oro en la Historia Do- minicana [Gold in Dominican History]. Santo Phillips, Ray. The Royal Fjord: Memories of Domingo, Dominican Republic: Academia Do- Jervis Inlet [British Columbia]. Madeira Park, minicana de la Historia, 2016. BC: Harbour Publishing, 2015. [Also an e-book. The author tells local anecdotes, including mining Muzylowski, Mike, and Jack Lee. Mr. Mine stories.] Finder: The Life and Career of Mike Muzylowski. Vancouver: Echo Storytelling Agency, 2017. [His Pierce, Jason E. Making the White Man’s role in the discovery of sixteen producing mines West: Whiteness and the Creation of the Ameri- earned the geologist a place in the Canadian Min- can West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, ing Hall of Fame.] 2016. [Includes a discussion of the treatment of Indians, Hispanics, and Chinese during the Cali- Neligh, Ian Paul. Gold!: Madness, Murder, fornia gold rush.] and Mayhem in the Colorado Rockies. Portland, OR: WestWinds Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] Piñeda Bañuelos, Gilberto J. Breve Historia de los Pueblos Mineros de Baja California Sur [A Nelson, Candace. The West Virginia Pepper- Brief History of the Mining Towns of Baja Cali- oni Roll. Morgantown: West Virginia University fornia Sur, Mexico]. (Cuadernos Universitarios Press, 2017. [The soft bread roll with pepperoni series.) La Paz, BCS: Universidad Autónoma de baked in the middle—easily eaten underground— Baja California Sur, 2016. was invented by coal mining Italian immigrants.] Plascencia, Luis F. B., and Gloria Cuadraz Nickliss, Alexandra M. Phoebe Apperson (eds.). Mexican Workers and the Making of Ari- Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics. Lincoln: zona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. University of Nebraska Press, 2018. [Also an e- [Also an e-book. Topics include the challenge to book. The financial impacts of the mining invest- a dual-wage system for miners in Miami, Arizona, ments of her husband, George, are woven through and the Morenci Miners Women’s Auxiliary dur- the story.] ing the copper miners’ strike in the 1980s.]

Oast, Jennifer. Institutional Slavery: Slave- Polenberg, Richard. Hear My Sad Story: The holding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses True Tales that Inspired “Stagolee,” “John Henry,” in Virginia, 1680-1860. New York: Cambridge and Other Traditional American Folk Songs. University Press, 2016. [Also an e-book. African Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. [A chap- American slaves were used to mine lead, coal, and ter discusses “Only a Miner” from the 1930s, gold.] about a coal miner “killed in the ground.”] 104 2018 Mining History Journal

Rodas Estrada, Juan Haroldo, Nuria Sala- Savage, Lon, and Ginny Savage Ayers. Never zar Simarro, and Jesús Paniagua Pérez (eds.). El Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Tesoro del Lugar Florido: Estudios Sobre la Plata Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks [West Vir- Iberoamericana: Siglos XVI-XIX [The Treasure ginia]. Morgantown: West Virginia University of the Flowery Place: Studies on Latin American Press, 2018. Silver: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries]. León, Spain: Ediciones el Forastero; México D.F.: Sears, Clare. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Secretaria de Cultura, INAH, 2017. Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Roller, Michael. An Archaeology of Structural [Also an e-book. The issues are set within the Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal Town. context of gold rush society.] Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. [Set in northeast Pennsylvania.] Shackel, Paul A. Remembering Lattimer: La- bor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthra- Roman Alarcón, Rigoberto Arturo. La cite Country. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Minería en Sinaloa: Producción, Empresas y Co- 2018. operativas, Siglos XIX y XX [Mining in Sinaloa, Mexico: Production, Companies and Coopera- Shaffer, Stephan B. Utah’s Hidden Treasure: tives, 19th and 20th Centuries]. Culiacán de Ro- Outlaw Loot in Every County. Springville, UT: sales, Sinaloa: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, CFI, 2017. [Also an e-book.] 2017. Sprain, Rick. Yavapai County [Arizona]. Rosental, Paul-André (ed.). Silicosis: A World Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2016. [Also an e-book. History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Reproduced historic postcards, including many Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] of mines.]

Saler, Bethel. The Settlers’ Empire: Colonial- Stainton, Shirley. Children of the Kootenays: ism and State Formation in America’s Old North- Memoirs of Mining Towns [in the 1930s and west. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania 1940s]. Victoria, BC: Heritage House Publish- Press, 2015. [Also an e-book. Includes a discus- ing, 2018. sion of lead mines and mining in the upper Mis- sissippi Valley.] Standridge, Eric L. Stories of the Mountain Gateway: The Saga of Southeast Oklahoma. Wis- Sanborn, Wallis R., and Wallis R. Sanborn III ter, OK: Shaw and Standridge, 2016. [The author (ed.). The Klondike Stampede: As It Appeared to collected historic stories, including a few about One of the Thousands of Cheechacos Who Partici- coal mines and mining.] pated in the Mad Rush of 1898-1899. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. [Also an e-book.] Stehman, Peter. Patriotic Murder: A World War I Hate Crime for Uncle Sam. Lincoln: Po- Saunders, R. D. Underground and Radioac- tomac Books (imprint of University of Nebraska tive: Adventures of a Uranium Miner in 1970s Press), 2018. [Examines the lynching of a German New Mexico. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. American coal miner in Collinsville, Illinois.] [Also an e-book.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 105

Stewart, Todd, and Alison Fields. Picher, Townsend, Bob, and Marjane Ambler. Atlan- Oklahoma: Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma. tic City, Wyoming, 1868-2018: Voices from a Pow- Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. erful Place. Atlantic City, WY: Atlantic City His- [Also an e-book. This photo essay explores the torical Society, 2017. [The boom and bust city lead and zinc mining ghost town that earned the experienced its fifth bust when U.S. Steel closed distinction of being the nation’s most toxic Super- its iron ore mine in 1984.] fund site in 2006; it reveals how memory can be dislocated and reframed through both chronic Tutino, John (ed.). New Countries: Capi- and acute instances of environmental trauma.] talism, Revolution, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870. Durham, NC: Duke University Svenson, Sally E. Blacks in the Adirondacks: Press, 2016. [Also an e-book. Finds that among A History. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, the eight countries studied, the sugar and silver 2017. [Also an e-book. A chapter involves Afri- economies in the Americas developed in parallel, can American iron ore miners in Moriah.] and in nineteenth-century Mexico the struggle to reinvigorate or replace the former mining indus- Taniguchi, Nancy J. Dirty Deeds: Land, Vio- try hindered the country’s political stability.] lence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Com- mittee. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Tutino, John. Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sov- 2016. [Also an e-book.] ereignty and Silver in an Age of War and Revolu- tion. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Thomas, Gren, and Will Peacock. Serendip- Press, 2018. [Also an e-book.] ity: From Coal Dust to Diamonds, the Adventures of My Life. Vancouver: Echo Storytelling Agency, Uribe Salas, Jose Alfredo, et al. 2017. [The founder of Aber Resources recalls (eds.). Economía, Sociedad y Cultura en la His- the Diavik discoveries—one of the world’s rich- toria de la Minería Latinoamericana [Economy, est diamond mines—in Canada’s Northwest Ter- Society and Culture in the History of Latin Ameri- ritories.] can Mining]. Morelia, Michoacán, México: Uni- versidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Thompson, Jonathan P. River of Lost Souls: 2016. The Science, Politics, and Greed behind the Gold King Mine Disaster. Salt Lake City: Torrey House Uribe, Sergio. Crónica de una Huelga Anun- Press, 2018. [Illustrates the devastating potential ciada: Una Lucha entre la Nostalgia y la Dignidad waiting in hundreds of abandoned mines through- Laboral [Chronicle of an Announced Strike: A Fight out the Rocky Mountains.] between Nostalgia and Labor Dignity]. Ciudad de México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Toroney, Frank. If Coal Could Talk: The 2017. [Relates a miners’ strike in Sombrerete, Za- Death of a Town: Centralia [Pennsylvania] Before, catecas, Mexico in 2007.] During and After the Underground Coal Mine Fire of 1962. Akron, OH: Forty-eight Hour Books, 2017. 106 2018 Mining History Journal

Valle Pavón, Guillermina del. Donativos, Riverside: Genesis Printers, 2017. [In 1853 men Préstamos y Privilegios: Los Mercaderes y Mineros from Sailors’ Diggin’s (Waldo, Oregon) founded de la Ciudad de México durante la Guerra Anglo- the supply port Paragon Bay (Crescent City, Cali- Española de 1779-1783 [Donations, Loans and fornia) to supply the mines between Waldo and Privileges: The Merchants and Miners of Mexico Jacksonville, Oregon, and Yreka, California; the City during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1779-1783]. guide-book follows the transition in transporta- Ciudad de México: Instituto de Investigaciones tion from mule trails to public highways.] Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2016. [In support of the American colonies, Spain declared war on Witt, Joseph D. Religion and Resistance in Britain in 1779; the author examines how wealthy Appalachia: Faith and the Fight against Mountain- merchants and miners of New Spain provided the top Removal Coal Mining. (Place Matters: New silver to support the war effort.] Directions in Appalachian Studies.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. [Also an e- Vanasse, Deb. Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack book.] and the Klondike Race for Gold. Fairbanks: Uni- versity of Alaska Press, 2016. [Tells of the First Woods, Sasha Carney, George E. Brown, and Nations woman’s connection to the discovery of Tamara Chapman. A Proud Heritage, a Bright gold with her common-law husband, her subse- Future: Superior Graphite, 1917-2017. Chicago: quent wealth and fame, and eventual loss.] Superior Graphite, 2017.

Vigil, Phillip Arnold. Coalfields that Made Wright, Robert. Rugged Mercy: A Country History in Las Animas County, Colorado: Inter- Doctor in Idaho’s Sun Valley. Pullman: Washing- preting and Preserving What Should Not Be For- ton State University Press, 2013. [A section of gotten. Golden, CO: Alphagraphics, 2017. [Pro- the book recalls that the doctor led the rescue ef- vides an overview of over forty mines.] fort in 1917 when a massive avalanche swept the North Star mine buildings, killing fifteen miners Walburn, Roberta. Miles Lord: The Maver- and injuring seventeen.] ick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Jus- tice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Wunder, John R., and Liping Zhu. Gold 2017. [In a landmark case of the early environ- Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal mental era, the judge ordered the shutdown of History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century the Reserve Mining Company in Minnesota due American West. Albuquerque: University of New to its dumping waste into Lake Superior.] Mexico Press, 2018.

Weber, Brandon. Class War, USA: Dispatches Zecker, Robert. A Road to Peace and Freedom: from the Front Lines of Workers’ Struggles in Amer- The International Workers Order and the Struggle ica. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018. [Also an for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954. e-book. Includes the Cripple Creek strike and the Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. Ludlow Massacre in Colorado.] [Also an e-book.]

Wensrich, Bill, and the Transierra Roister- Zielinsky, Thomas W., and George B. ous Alliance of Senior Humbugs (TRASH). The Hines. Rockyside: A Forgotten [Clay] Mining Trail to Sailors’ Diggin’s from Paragon Bay: An Community. Weirton, WV: TZielinsky, 2017. Historical Humbug’s Hike. (TRASH Trekk 44.) Recent Publications on the History of Mining 107

Dissertations and Theses: Free, Jonathon M. “Redistributing Risk: The Political Ecology of Coal in Late-Twentieth Cen- Addie, Sean C. “‘Go Back to the Capital and tury Appalachia.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, Stay There’: The Mining Industry’s Resistance to 2016. Regulatory Reform in British Columbia, 1972- 2005.” M.A. thesis, University of Victoria, 2017. Geraghty, Kathryn. “Colors of the Western Mining Frontier: Painted Finishes in Virginia Alexandrov, Nicholas. “Undermining Sover- City, Montana.” M.S. thesis, University of Or- eignty: The Costs of U.S. Mineral Needs in Latin egon, 2017. America.” Ph.D. diss., George Washington Uni- versity, 2016. Haig, Jose. “Factors Affecting Ecosystem Re- covery after Placer Mining in Northwestern Brit- Baeten, John. “A Landscape of Water and ish Columbia.” MNRES thesis, University Of Waste: Heritage Legacies and Environmental Northern British Columbia, 2017. [The study Change in the Mesabi Iron Range.” Ph.D. diss., showed that a mean of 101 years would be needed Michigan Technological University, 2017. for disturbed sites to return to mean undisturbed conditions.] Caldemeyer, Dana M. “Run of the Mine: Miners, Farmers, and the Non-Union Spirit of the Higgins, Victor D. “Unpolished Emeralds Gilded Age, 1886-1896.” PhD. diss., University in the Gem State: Hard-Rock Mining, Labor of Kentucky, 2016. Unions, and Irish Nationalism in the Mountain West and Idaho, 1850-1900.” M.A. thesis, Boise Dale, Emily S. “Chinese Agency in the Era of State University, 2017. the Chinese Question: Historical Archaeology of Woodcutting Communities in Nevada [near the Hogue, Katy Lee. “‘A Deliberate and Oddly mining towns Aurora and Bodie], 1861-1920.” Planned Masterpiece of Roguery’: Public Opin- Ph.D. diss., University of Nevada, Reno, 2016. ion and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872.” M.A. thesis, California State University, Fresno, 2017. Dowds, Susannah T. “Alaska Sourdough: Bread, Beards and Yeast.” M.A. thesis, University Keegan, Brennan L. “After Eden: Religion and of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017. [Examines why sour- Labor in the American West, 1868-1914.” Ph.D. dough, made from imported ingredients, became diss., Duke University, 2018. [Evaluates Roman a traditional food in the Alaska and Yukon gold Catholic hard-rock miners in Butte, Montana, rush era, and how “sourdough” grew to signify an one of three case studies.] experienced northerner.] Leskovar, Louis Daniel. “Payment for Vio- Edmiston, Samantha. “Black Gold: Molly lence Rendered: Baldwin-Felts [Detectives] Dur- Maguireism, Unionism, and the Anthracite La- ing the Colorado Coal Field Strike.” B.A. Senior bor Wars, 1860-1880.” M.A. thesis, Old Domin- Thesis, Weber State University, 2018. ion University, 2017. 108 2018 Mining History Journal

Lombardi, William V. “Postlocal Ecocriti- Sasges, Michael Joseph. “Colliers and Cow- cism: Place-Making in California’s Literary Land- boys: Imagining the Industrialization of British scape, 1850-1999.” Ph.D. diss., University of Ne- Columbia’s Nicola Valley.” MALS thesis, Simon vada, Reno, 2016. [A chapter analyzes adaptations Fraser University, 2013. to local conditions in the diggings of the Feather River watershed based on miners’ accounts.] Serrano, Fernando. “Indigenous Mine Work- ers in the Guanajuato-Michoacan Region: Labor, Melatti, Robert Nicholas. “Achieving Sour- Migration, and Ethnic Identity in Colonial Mex- dough Status: The Diary, Photographs, and Let- ico, 1550-1800.” Ph.D. diss., University of Cali- ters of Samuel Baker Dunn, 1898-1899.” M.A. fornia Los Angeles, 2017. thesis, Old Dominion University, 2016. [Exam- ines the exodus from southwestern Iowa of Dunn Silvola, Robert T. “From Gold Rush to Indus- and other prospectors to the Yukon.] trialization: The Rise and Fall of Hydraulic Min- ing in Northern California and the Creation of a Moriel-Payne, Juana. “Drama a Flor De Piel: New Society.” M.A. thesis, Claremont Graduate Fiestas, Capellanías y Cofradías en San Joseph del University, 2016. Parral, Chihuahua, Siglos XVII y XVIII [Drama on Edge: Fiestas, Chaplaincies and Brotherhoods Simmons, Darby G. “Labor of Love: Prosti- in San Joseph del Parral, Chihuahua, Seventeenth tutes and Civic Engagement in Leadville, Colora- and Eighteenth Centuries.]” Ph.D. diss., Univer- do, 1870-1915.” Undergraduate Honors Thesis, sity of Texas at El Paso, 2016. University of Colorado Boulder, 2017.

Pelto, Brendan. “Black Americans in Michi- Sinclair, Katherine. “Iron Ore and Well-Be- gan’s Copper Mining Narrative.” M.S. thesis, ing: Inuit Engagements with Mining.” PhD. diss., Michigan Technological University, 2017. McGill University, 2017.

Perry, Jay. “The Chinese Question: Califor- Sutherland, Frederick E. “The Cuyuna [Min- nia, British Columbia, and the Making of Trans- nesota] Iron Range: Legacy of a 20th Century national Immigration Policy, 1847-1885.” Ph.D. Industrial Community.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan diss., Bowling Green State University, 2014. Technological University, 2016.

Rademacher, Thomas. “Wisconsin Sand and Szilagyi, Steven Donald. “Reprising the Trail Gravel Mining: From 19th Century Gravel Pits Smoke Eaters: Men’s Hockey in a Mid-Twentieth to 21st Century Frac Sand Mines.” Senior thesis, Century Canadian Resource Community.” M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017. thesis, University of Lethbridge, 2016. [Consid- ers the impact the 1939 and 1961 mythologized Raspa, Darren Alan. “Bloody Bay: Grassroots World Championship teams had on the commu- Policeways, Community Control, and Power in nity of Trail, British Columbia, and the Consoli- San Francisco and its Hinterlands, 1846-1915.” dated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Ph.D. diss., University of New Mexico, 2017. (Cominco), where the players worked.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 109

Thomas, Danilo John. “Gods of Fire.” Ph.D. amsite.] diss., Florida State University, 2017. [Uses linked stories to illustrate the connections between Aldrich, Mark. “An Energy Transition before Birch, Montana’s copper mining history and the the Age of Oil: The Decline of Anthracite, 1900- hardships the present generation faces as a direct 1930.” Pennsylvania History 85, no. 1 (Win. result of that history.] 2018): 1-31.

Tuttle, Ellen E. “Miners, Moonshiners, and Allard, Andrea C. “A War of Words: TheMe - Men of the Mountains: The Effect of Violence saba Ore and Hibbing News Takes on the ‘Big Fel- in Central Appalachia through the Reconstruc- lows.’” Minnesota History 65, no. 3 (Fall 2016): tion Era.” Senior thesis, Salve Regina University, 101-10. [The editors passionately supported the 2017. Mesabi Iron Range miners during their 1916 strike.] Walkling, Lauren. “Persistence in Aurora, Nevada: Survival Strategies of the Northern Pai- Anderson, Chris. “Mining and the Fall and ute.” M.A. thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, Rise of Poverty in Southern West Virginia.” The 2018. [Persistence tactics during the late nine- Extractive Industries and Society 1, no. 1 (Mar. teenth century are examined via historical docu- 2014): 2-3. mentation and archaeological evidence from near the mining town.] Anthony, Patrick. “Mining as the Working World of Alexander von Humboldt’s Plant Geog- Wegerich, Alexis. “Digging Deeper: Global raphy and Vertical Cartography.” Isis 109, no. 1 Coal Prices and Industrial Growth, 1840-1960.” (Mar. 2018): 28-55. Ph.D. diss., University of Oxford, 2016. “Arizona,” no. 6. Special issue, Mineralogical Whitley, Lindsey Robinette. “An African Record 46, no. 4 (July-Aug. 2015) [entire issue]. American Oral History Narrative: Labor, Race, Class, and Gender in a Coal Mining Community.” Aston, Felicity. “Going for Gold.” Geograph- Ph.D diss., Middle Tennessee State University, ical [London] 89, no. 2 (Feb. 2017): 67-9. [Fol- 2016. [Kenneth Keys, son of a coal miner, grew lowing the route of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush, up in the coal mining town of Steinman, Virginia, the author travelled into the Canadian Yukon.] in the 1940s and 50s.] Aston, Richard. “Images of the Deep An- Articles and Chapters: thracite Miner.” Torch 89, no. 2 (Win. 2016): 32-5. [The article presents poems about miners Adams, Clair. “[Gold miner and judge] in northeastern Pennsylvania from about 1850 to Adolph Barry Adams.” Humboldt Historian 64, 1959.] no. 1 (Spr. 2016): 40-2. Austin, Noah. “A Totally Different Ball- Adams, Paul M. “The Santa Rosa Mine Inyo game.” Arizona Highways 94, no. 3 (Mar. 2018): County, California.” Mineralogical Record 48, no. 40-7. [Built in 1909 by a subsidiary of the Calu- 6 (Nov. 2017): 755-77. [Includes a history of the met and Arizona Mining Co, Bisbee’s Warren mine, which contains uncommon sulfate micro- Ballpark gave copper miners a place to play and minerals and is also the type locality for paulad- watch games.] 110 2018 Mining History Journal

Baeten, John, Nancy Langston, and Don Boschman, Robert, and Bill Bunn. “Nuclear Lafreniere. “A Geospatial Approach to Uncover- Avenue: ‘Cyclonic Development,’ Abandonment, ing the Hidden Waste Footprint of Lake Superi- and Relations in Uranium City, Canada.” Hu- or’s Mesabi Iron Range.” The Extractive Industries manities 7, no. 1 (2018): 5-25. [In 1982 the Eldo- and Society 3, no. 4 (Nov. 2016): 1031-45. rado Corporation closed its mines, resulting in a population drop from four thousand to fifty.] Baeten, John, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere. “A Spatial Evaluation of Historic Iron Bowen, Margaret C. “Voices of the New- Mining Impacts on Current Impaired Waters in ark Overland Company [in the California Gold Lake Superior’s Mesabi Range.” Ambio: A Journal Rush].” Overland Journal 35, no. 3 (Fall 2017): of the Human Environment 47, no. 2 (Mar. 2018): 93-105. 231-44. Brooks, Kelly. “Colorado Mining History at Bardal, Jane. “Oral Histories from the Grants the Stewart R. Wallace Memorial Library of SME Uranium District, New Mexico.” Mining History [in Englewood, Colorado].” Mining Engineering Journal 24 (2017): 8-18. 69, no. 6 (June 2017): 63.

Baskette, Deborah. “The Mining Diary of Brown, Jessica Wambach. “Liberty, WA.” Bertrand A. Gates.” Humboldt Historian 65, no. Wild West 31, no. 2 (Aug. 2018): 80-1. [Includes 4 (Win. 2017): 34-42. [Coming to California in a 1967 Washington Supreme Court decision in 1893, Gates mentions panning for gold, hydraulic favor of residents of the gold mining town evicted mining, and using sluice boxes.] by the Golden Thunderbird Mining Company.]

Bigelow, Allison Margaret. “Imperial Project- Brown, Richelle C. “Power Line: Memory ing in Virginia and Venezuela: Copper, Colonial- and the March on Blair Mountain.” In: Maria ism, and the Printing of Possibility.” Early Ameri- Theresia Starzmann and John R. Roby (eds.). Ex- can Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16, no. 1 cavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and For- (Win. 2018): 91-123. getting, 86-108. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016. [Also an e-book.] Bigelow, Allison. “Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into Extractive Economies: The Sci- Buck, Nina. “Long History of the Shortest ence of Colonial Silver.” The Extractive Industries Line.” Nebraska Life 21, no. 4 (July 2017): 15. and Society 3, no. 1 (Jan. 2016): 117-23. [The steam locomotives of the Nebraska-Kansas Railroad traveled roughly four miles, each way, Boal, William M. “What Did Unions hauling limestone from Kansas quarries to the Do? The Case of Illinois Coal Mining in the Ideal Cement Company in Nebraska.] 1880s.” Journal of Labor Research 38, no. 4 (Dec. 2017): 439-74. Burton, Nicole Marie. “Coal Mountain: A Graphic Re-telling of the 1935 Corbin Miners’ Boessenecker, John. “The Bride and the Brig- Strike.” In: The Graphic History Collective and and.” Wild West 30, no. 4 (Dec. 2017): 64-9. [A Paul Buhle (eds.). Drawn to Change: Graphic stagecoach carrying a bride-to-be (on her way to Histories of Working-Class Struggle. Toronto: Be- marry a man she had never met) was robbed by tween the Lines, 2016. [A tractor-snowplow in- the bridegroom.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 111 jured more than thirty-three women and striking Covert, Shelly. “The Continuing Hold of the men near Crow’s Nest Pass in British Columbia.] Gold Rush on California’s Indigenous Survivors.” News from Native California 30, no. 4 (Sum. Cabrera Rajo, Sigfredo. “Introducción de los 2017): 15-6. Esclavos Negros Africanos en el Reino de Gua- temala y Provincias de San Salvador y Honduras Cunningham, Keith. “Canada’s National Or- [Introduction of African Black Slaves in the King- phaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative.” AusIMM dom of Guatemala and Provinces of San Salvador Bulletin (June 2017): 38-40. and Honduras].” Revista de Museología Kóot no. 8 (2017): 82-175. [In the sixteenth century, Span- Davalos, Camaray. “Rise up with Fists: Native iards enslaved the natives to use them in mining; Women and Resistance in the Gold Rush.” News in 1546 black slaves were introduced.] from Native California 30, no. 4 (Sum. 2017): 30-2. Castro, Gregg. “The Mystery of the Cave.” News from Native California 30, no. 4 (Sum. 2017): Davis, Wade. “If We Build It, They Will 17-9. [The article focuses on the so-called Massa- Come: Industrial Folly and the Fate of North- cre Cave, which contained skeletal remains.] west British Columbia.” BC Studies no. 197 (Spr. 2018): 145-62. Condratto, Shelley, and Ewan Gibbs. “After Industrial Citizenship: Adapting to Precarious Dethier, David P., et al. “Anthropocene Land- Employment in the Lanarkshire Coalfield, Scot- scape Change and the Legacy of Nineteenth- and land, and Sudbury Hardrock Mining, Canada.” Twentieth-Century Mining in the Fourmile Labour/Le Travail no. 81 (Spr. 2018): 213-39. Catchment, Colorado Front Range.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, no. Conrad, Cyler. “Kangaroos and the Califor- 4 (July 2018): 917-37. nia Gold Rush.” California History 94, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 62-5. [Skins were imported for rugs, but Diawara, Moussa M., et al. “Smelting Re- live animals were displayed for a profit.] mains a Public Health Risk nearly a Century Later: A Case Study in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.” Contreras Delgado, Camilo. “Construcción International Journal of Environmental Research del Patrimonio: La Movilización de la Memoria and Public Health 15, no. 5 (May 2018): 932-47. Colectiva en Localidades Mineras de Coahuila, México [Heritage Construction: The Mobiliza- “Documented Mining-Related Interactions tion of the Collective Memory in Mining Towns between Spaniards and Southwestern Indians of in Coahuila, Mexico].” Intervención 8, no. 16 the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” Ap- (July-Dec. 2017): 70-81. pendix One in: Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher (eds.). The Archaeology and History of Cossar-Gilbert, Sam, and Riccardo Navarro. Pueblo San Marcos: Change and Stability, 259-64. “Making History: El Salvador Becomes First Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Country to Ban Metal Mining.” Chain Reaction 2017. [Also an e-book.] no. 130 (Sep. 2017): 19. 112 2018 Mining History Journal

Dumonceaux, Scott. “‘All Occurrences Frost, Kayla. “The Tombstone Epitaph.” Ar- Within or Without the District’: The North-West izona Highways 94, no. 6 (June 2018): 8. [The Mounted Police, the Canadian Government, and goal of the long-published newspaper is to create the Order of the Midnight Sun’s Plot to Take over a detailed mining journal reported with honesty the Yukon.” Northern Review (Fall 2016): 191- and accuracy.] 217. [A group of American miners conspired to take control of Canada’s Yukon.] Furner, Mary O. “Defining the Public Good in the U.S. Gilded Age, 1883–1898: ‘Freedom of Edgerton, Keith. “A [Butte] Copper King’s Contract’ Versus ‘Internal Police’ in the Tortured Mysterious Marriage: The Peculiar Pairing of History of Employment Law and Regulation.” William A. Clark and Anna LaChapelle.” Mon- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, tana 67, no. 3 (Aut. 2017): 57-66. no. 2 (Apr. 2018): 241-75. [Includes a discussion of Holden v. Hardy, 1898, in which the U.S. Su- Fonseca, Manuel Jiménez. “Jus gentium and preme Court found a public interest in sustain- the Transformation of Latin American Nature: ing the health and strength of Utah miners and One More Reading of [Francisco] Vitoria?” In: smelter workers since the public depended on Martti Koskenniemi, Walter Rech, and Manuel their productive capacity.] Jiménez Fonseca (eds.). International Law and Empire: Historical Explorations. Oxford: Oxford “The Future of Forever.” Economist 422, no. University Press, 2017. [Ideas of human superi- 9029 (25 Feb. 2017): 46-8. [The article discusses ority over nature fit well with an economic ethos the history of diamond mining, including De in which the exploitation of nature produced in- Beers’ Gahcho Kué mine in the Northwest Ter- creasing wealth and power.] ritories, Canada.]

Forgrave, Mike. “Remnants of Old Copper Galois, Robert. “Gold on Haida Gwaii [Brit- Country Railroads.” Michigan History Magazine ish Columbia]: The First Prospects, 1849-53.” (July-Aug. 2016): 48-9. BC Studies no. 196 (Win. 2017-18): 15-42. [The location was formerly known as the Queen Char- Fowler, Will. “First Impressions: Henry lotte Islands.] George Ward’s Mexico in 1827.” Journal of Latin American Studies 50, no. 2 (May 2018): 265-89. Geiger, Andrea. “Haida Gwaii [British Co- [Fowler analyzes Ward’s exhaustive account of lumbia] as North Pacific Borderland, Ikeda [Cop- Mexico and its mining activities.] per] Mine as Alternative West, 1906-1910.” Pa- cific Northwest Quarterly 108, no. 4 (Fall 2017): Frehner, Brian. “Jurisdictional No Man’s 119-33. Land: Choctaws, Lawyers, and the Coal Ques- tion in Indian Territory.” In: Katrina Jagodinsky Godkin, David. “Agnico Eagle Soars At 60.” and Pablo Mitchell (eds.). Beyond the Borders Canadian Mining Journal 138, no. 7 (Sep. 2017): of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North 12-6. American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Goode, James B. “The Impact of Coal Min- ing in the Evolution of Appalachian Kentucky Literature: A Retrospective.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 31 (2016): 129-38. Recent Publications on the History of Mining 113

Goodman, Audrey. “Assembling Califor- Hanlon, Tina L. “Struggles for Life, Liberty, nia Photobooks.” Iperstoria no. 11 (Spr.-Sum. and Land: Appalachian Mining Communities in 2018). [Available online only. http://www.ip- Children’s Literature.” Southern Quarterly. 54, erstoria.it/joomla/images/PDF/Numero_11/ no. 3-4 (Spr.-Sum. 2017): 94-113. monografica_11/Goodman.pdf. Discusses Alma Lavenson’s “Mother Lode” project, a sequence of Hauser, Jason. “‘A Golden Harvest’: Gold photographs of California mining country that Mining and Agricultural Reform in North Caro- she began in the 1930s.] lina, 1799-1842.” Agricultural History 91, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 469-87. “Guanajuato, El Cobre, La Aurora, Flor de Peña.” (Mines and Minerals of Mexico no. 7.) Hazel, Forest. “‘They Don’t Dig for Coal Special issue, Mineralogical Record 47, no. 5 (Sep.- Here Anymore’: North Carolina’s Coal Glen Oct. 2016). Mine.” Southern Cultures 23, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 62-9. [A 1925 explosion killed everyone in the Halden, Terry. “Farlin, Montana.” Wild West mine.] 30, no. 5 (Feb. 2018): 80-1. Heimo, Anne. “The [Calumet, Michigan] Hale, Grace Elizabeth. “Documentary Noise: Italian Hall Tragedy, 1913: A Hundred Years of The Soundscape of Barbara Kopple’s [1976 Film] Remediated Memories.” European Studies: A Harlan County, U.S.A.” Southern Cultures 23, Journal of European Culture, History and Politics no. 1 (2017): 10-32. 34 (15 Sep. 2017): 240-67.

Haley, Sharman, and David Fisher. “Indig- Hein, Jayni Foley, and Caroline Cecot. “Min- enous Employment, Training and Retention: eral Royalties: Historical Uses and Justifications.” Successes and Challenges at Red Dog [Zinc and Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 28, Lead] Mine.” In: Emma Gilberthorpe and Gavin no. 1 (Fall 2017): 1-29. Hilson (eds.). Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges Hendrickson, Mark. “‘The Sesame That in an Era of Globalization, 11-36. London: Rout- Opens the Door of Trade’: John Hays Hammond ledge, 2016. and Foreign Direct Investment in Mining, 1880- 1920.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Hammond, Andy. “A Walking Arsenal.” Era 16, no. 3 (July 2017): 325-46. [American Overland Journal 35, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 93. [Some mining engineers fanned out around the globe to prospectors in the California gold rush of 1849 potential or existing mines, encouraging the ex- were criticized for carrying too many weapons; port of U.S. capital.] the article outlines stories of accidents and fatali- ties due to the careless handling of firearms.] Henrickson, Ashley, and Nancy Payne. “Chil- dren of Industry.” Canada’s History 98, no. 2 (Apr. Hammond, Andy. “The Look of the Ele- 2018): 32-9. [Offers an overview and photo- phant.” Overland Journal 35, no. 2 (Sum. 2017): graphs of children’s employment in Canada’s coal 42. [Song and music made the atmosphere cheer- mining industry from the late nineteenth through ful and soothing for tired miners.] the early twentieth century.] 114 2018 Mining History Journal

Hidalgo, Thomas. “From the Mountains how the deposit was found, the mining tech- and Plains of Spain to the Hills and Hollers [and niques and processes used, and how the mined Mines] of West Virginia: Spanish Immigration resource is or was used. Find out from a historian, into Southern West Virginia in the Early Twen- community leader or business person how mining tieth Century.” In: Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and has affected your community. Note any social, Ana Varela-Lago (eds.). Hidden Out in the Open: cultural, or economic consequences of mining in Spanish Migration to the United States (1875- your area. Share what you have learned with your 1930). Boulder: University Press of Colorado, counselor.”] 2018. Hoskins, Gareth. “Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Higgins, Margot. “Ghost Dancers and Shad- Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California.” In: ow Keepers.” Orion 35, no. 4-5 (July-Oct. 2016): Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs (eds.). 53-4. [Higgins discusses the important role cop- The American Environment Revisited: Environ- per played in the Ahtna people’s culture, as well as mental Historical Geographies of the United States, the role the Ahtna played in the development of 217-34. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, the mines in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains.] 2018.

Higgins, Margot. “Prospecting for Buried Jenney, William. “Having Your Yellow Cake Narratives in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Eating It Too: The Environmental and Health and Preserve.” In: Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kev- Impacts of Uranium Mining on the Colorado Pla- in Maier (eds.). Critical Norths: Space, Nature, teau.” Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Theory, 287-316. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Policy no. 14 (Spr. 2017): 1-19. Press, 2017. [Also an e-book. The authors point out that the park’s dominant narrative has focused Jensen-Ryan, Danielle. “New Technologies, on the 1900-1938 mining era, with very little ac- Old Stories: The Forgotten Voices of Uranium knowledgement of the years before or after.] Mining in Rural Wyoming.” The Extractive In- dustries and Society 1, no. 2 (Nov. 2014): 321-8. Holmes, Linda Lee. “Weighing the Wealth: Maximilian Edward Mayer, Pioneer Assayer, Johnson-Groh, Mara. “Isotopes Suggest An- 1839-1920.” Western States Jewish History 50, no. cient Turquoise Mine was Prolific.” Earth 63, no. 2 (Win. 2018): 15-32. 1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 2018): 34. [The Canyon Creek mine in Arizona was active during the thirteenth Hoogeveen Dawn. “Sovereign Intentions: and fourteenth centuries and its turquoise was Gold Mining Law and Mineral Staking in British widely traded to distances more than a hundred Columbia.” BC Studies no. 198 (Sum. 2018): 81- kilometers away.] 101. Johnsson, Johnny. “Maryland’s Choate Chro- Hopkins, Christopher. “Help a Boy Scout mite Mine, 1830-1920.” Mining History Journal Earn a [Mining in Society] Merit Badge.” Rock 24 (2017): 53-73. Products 120, no. 2 (Feb. 2017): 84. [Although most requirements focus on current mining, one is related to history: “Learn about the history of a local mine, including what is or was mined there, Recent Publications on the History of Mining 115

Johnston, Joe. “Flash in-the-Pan Creede: A Krats, Peter. “‘A Commodity so Closely Late Silver Find Birthed this Colorado Boom- Aligned to Armageddon’: The Sudbury [Ontar- town and Drew a Cast of Colorful Characters, io] Region in [World War I] Wartime and After- Including Soapy Smith, Bat Masterson, Bob Ford math.” Northern Review (Spr. 2017): 371-414. and Poker Alice.” Wild West (Apr. 2018): 52-7. Kuhlberg, Mark, and Scott Miller. “‘Protec- Kakela, Peter. “The Historic Rebirth of Iron tion to the Sulphur-Smoke Tort-feasors’: The Ore: How One Seaway Commodity Transformed Tragedy of Pollution in Sudbury, Ontario, the after World War II.” Great Lakes Seaway Review World’s Nickel Capital, 1884-1927.” Canadian 46, no. 2 (Oct.-Dec. 2017): 50-2. Historical Review 99, no. 2 (June 2018): 225-57. [A tortfeaser’s negligence causes damages to an- Kakela, Peter. “An Iron Ore Comeback: Fears other person.] of Port [sic] World War II Depletion Addressed by New Processing.” Great Lakes Seaway Review Lamothe-Ammerlaan, Tara, et al. “The New 46, no. 3 (Jan.-Mar. 2018): 51-5. Gold Rush: Placer Mining in the Fraser Water- shed.” BC Studies no. 196 (Win. 2017-18): 115- Keeling, Arn, and John Sandlos. “Ghost 34. [The authors analyze the impact that placer Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Di- mining has had on the region’s economy and cul- mensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, ture and on the sockeye salmon.] and Redevelopment in the Canadian North.” In: Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin (eds.). Ice Lang, Julian. “The Great California Gold Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental His- Rush.” News from Native California 30, no. 4 tory, 377-420. Calgary: University of Calgary (Sum. 2017): 9-14. [Offers the view from a tribal Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] perspective.]

Keeney, Charles B., III. “The Fight to Save LaPiana, Amber. “‘A Transparent Medium’: Blair Mountain.” [National Trust for Historic Mary Hallock Foote’s The Led-Horse Claim and Preservation] Forum Journal 31, no. 3 (Spr. 2017): the Mapping of Leadville.” American Literary Re- 52-60. alism 49, no. 2 (Win. 2017): 152-68. [The author scrutinizes the novel’s geographic representations “Knight Foundry Redesignated as an ASME of the Leadville, Colorado, mining camp.] Landmark.” Mechanical Engineering 140, no. 5 (May 2018): 62. [The cast-iron Knight Water LaVigne, David. “More than Mines: Effects Wheel was created at the Sutter Creek, Cali- of Cluett, Peabody’s Arrow Factories on the Post- fornia, foundry, which was recognized by the war Iron Range, 1946-1979.” Minnesota History American Society of Mechanical Engineers for 66, no. 2 (Sum. 2018): 54-65. [As high-grade iron its significance to the northern California mining ore mining diminished in the 1950s, three Arrow industry.] men’s wear factories supported the economy by predominately hiring women.] Koster, John. “Got Rats? Sell Cats.” Wild West (Apr. 2017): 24-5. [The price of cats went LaVigne, David. “Rebel Girls: Women in the up as the population of rats rose in mining areas.] Mesabi Iron Range Strike of 1916.” Minnesota History 65, no. 3 (2016): 90-100. 116 2018 Mining History Journal

Leech, Brian. “Competition, Community, MacDonald, Ginger Gibson, John B. Zoe, and Entertainment: The Anaconda Company’s and Terre Satterfield. “Reciprocity in the Canadi- Promotion of Mine Safety in Butte, Montana, an Dene Diamond Mining Economy.” In: Emma 1915-1942.” Mining History Journal 24 (2017): Gilberthorpe and Gavin Hilson (eds.). Natural 19-39. Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globaliza- Leiker, James N. “The Klan in the Coal tion, 57-74. London: Routledge, 2016. Mines: The End of Kansas’s Reform Era in the 1920s.” Western Historical Quarterly 48, no. 3 Manning, Joe. “The Blizzard Family of Kemp- (Sep. 2017): 277-98. ton, Maryland: Faces from a Depression-Era Coal Mining Town.” Maryland Historical Magazine Liesch, Matthew. “Creating Keweenaw 112, no. 2 (Fall-Win. 2017): 246-65. [Michigan]: Parkmaking as Response to Post- Mining Economic Decline.” The Extractive In- Mark, Christopher. “Communications.” dustries and Society 3, no. 2 (Apr. 2016): 527-38. Technology and Culture 57, no. 3 (July 2016): 714-9. [The letter to the editor responds to Mark Liesch, Matthew. “Spatial Boundaries and In- Aldrich’s “Engineers Attack the ‘No. One Killer’ dustrial Landscapes at Keweenaw National His- in Coal Mining.”] torical Park [Michigan].” The Extractive Indus- tries and Society 1, no. 2: (Nov. 2014): 303-11. Martinelli, Phylis Cancilla. “Miners from Spain to Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1930.” In: Lobao, Linda, et al. “Poverty, Place, and Coal Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and Ana Varela-Lago Employment across Appalachia and the United (eds.). Hidden Out in the Open: Spanish Migra- States in a New Economic Era [1990-2010].” Ru- tion to the United States (1875-1930). Boulder: ral Sociology 81, no. 3 (Sep. 2016): 343-86. University Press of Colorado, 2018.

“Long Shadows.” Mining History Journal 23 Mauk, Ben. “States of Decay: A Journey (2016): 120-4. [Some consequences of Telluride, through America’s Nuclear Heartland.” Harper’s Colorado’s 1901-5 labor disputes]. Magazine no. 2009 (Oct. 2017): 49-59. [Details health and environmental problems due to ura- Lyons, Chuck. “Copper: The Kingmaker.” nium mining and milling in the Colorado Plateau Wild West 30, no. 4 (Dec. 2017): 24-5. area.]

Lyons, Chuck. “Deadwood’s [1879] Black McCarten, Neala. “Play Me Some Mountain Friday Fire.” Wild West 30, no. 6 (Apr. 2018): 46- Music.” Trailer Life 77, no. 5 (May 2017): 9. [The 51. annual Coke Ovens Bluegrass Festival raises funds for the Dunlap Coke Museum; the Sequatchie Lyons, Chuck. “The Great Western Flood [of Valley, Tennessee, produced coal and coke for the 1861-62]: For Two Decades Drought had been iron and steel foundries of Chattanooga.] Plaguing California—Then Came the Rain . . . and Still More Rain.” Wild West 28, no. 6 (Apr. McMullen, Melissa. “Seeing History: A Visu- 2016): 36-41. al Assessment of the Historic-Grounding of Old Western Tourist Towns.” Journal of Heritage Tour- ism 13, no. 5 (Oct. 2018): 411-425. Recent Publications on the History of Mining 117

McNeely, Camille, and Carmen A. Nezat. Mitchell, Annie R. “Jewish Pioneer Mer- “Mining, Climate, and the Giant Salmonfly.” In: chants of Tulare County [California].” Western Paul Lindholdt (ed.). The Spokane River, 191- States Jewish History 48, no. 3-4 (Spr.-Sum. 2016): 201. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 163-70. 2018. [Examines the environmental impact of historic silver, lead, and zinc mines in Washing- Montgomery, Kathy. “United Verde and Pa- ton and Idaho.] cific Railway.” Arizona Highways 92, no. 5 (May 2016): 8-9. [William A. Clark built the railroad, Megaw, Peter K. M. “The Santa Eulalia Min- which helped make the United Verde’s operation ing District Chihuahua, Mexico.” (Mines and at Jerome the largest copper mine in the Arizona Minerals of Mexico no. 8.) Special issue, Mineral- Territory.] ogical Record 49, no. 1 (Jan. 2018). [These silver- lead-zinc mines have yielded at least two hundred Naik, Samantha Lampert, et al. “Mortal- mineral species.] ity from Asbestos-Associated Disease in Libby, Montana, 1979-2011.” Journal of Exposure Sci- Merilees, Bill. “The Coal Miner’s Rose.” Brit - ence and Environmental Epidemiology 27, no. 2 ish Columbia History 50, no. 1 (Spr. 2017): 52. (Mar. 2017): 207-13. [The study suggests that [Focuses on Nanaimo, British Columbia, Hud- community residents may be experiencing asbes- son’s Bay Company, and the Dog Rose flower.] tos-related effects, not only former vermiculite mine workers.] Miller, Andrew M., and Evelyn Siegfried. “Traditional Knowledge of Minerals in Canada.” “Nellie Goes North.” Mining History Jour- Canadian Journal of Native Studies 37, no. 2 (June nal 24 (2017): 112-22. [Miner Nellie Cashman’s 2017): 35-60. years in northern Canada and Alaska.]

Miller, Leta E. “Philanthropy as Cultural Nelson, Andrew D. “Gold in the Documents: Outreach: Phoebe Hearst and Music in Lead, Estimating Placer Mining Excavation Volumes in South Dakota.” South Dakota History 47, no. 3 the Fraser Basin, British Columbia, Using His- (Fall 2017): 256-87. torical Sources.” BC Studies no. 196 (Win. 2017- 18): 89-113. Mills, Thomas. “Adapting to Miners’ Prac- tices: The Development of Gold Mining Law Nordberg, Erik. “Whither Mining History?” and the 1863 Mining Board.” BC Studies no. 196 Mining History Journal 24 (2017): 1-7. (Win. 2017-18): 43-65. [Examines the applica- tion of British mining law in colonial British Co- Panico, Francesco. “Minería y Territorio: lumbia.] Acercamientos Teóricos al Campo de la Historia Ambiental a Través de un Estudio de Caso [Min- “Mining History Association Will Meet in ing and Territory: Theoretical Approaches to the the Black Hills.” Mining Engineering 70, no. 3 Field of Environmental History Through a Case (Mar. 2018): 54. Study].” Región y Sociedad 30, no. 73 (2018): 1-25. [Uses Mazapil in the current state of Za- catecas, Mexico, as an example.] 118 2018 Mining History Journal

Parsons, Richard. “Copper King Mining Piper, Liza, and Heather Green. “A Province Company [Utah]: A Case Study in Using Loans Powered by Coal: The Renaissance of Coal Min- and Equity to Finance a Start-Up.” Journal of ing in Late Twentieth-Century Alberta.” Cana- Business Case Studies 12, no. 1 (2016): 19-28. dian Historical Review 98, no. 3 (Sep. 2017): 532- 67. Pearson, Chad. “Twentieth Century US La- bor History: Pedagogy, Politics, and Controver- Pollack, Howard. “The Ballad of Baby Doe.” sies, Part 1.” History Compass 15, no. 12 (10 Dec. In: The Ballad of John Latouche: An American 2017). [Available online only. https://onlineli- Lyricist’s Life and Work, 427-62. New York: Ox- brary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hic3.12433. ford University Press, 2017. Since the 1960s, scholars have broadened labor historiography to include the study of working- Procter, Andrea. “Uranium and the Bound- class people both in and outside of workplaces, aries of Indigeneity in Nunatsiavut, Labrador.” and also gender and race.] The Extractive Industries and Society 3, no. 2 (Apr. 2016): 288-96. [Analyzes the background of the Pearson, Chad. “Twentieth Century US La- Labrador Inuit temporarily banning uranium de- bor History: Pedagogy, Politics, and Controver- velopment on their lands in 2008.] sies, Part 2.” History Compass 16, no. 8 (24 July 2018). [Available online only. https://onlineli- Prouty, Michael J. “Examining Class Orga- brary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hic3.12479.] nization within a Historical Mining Town in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.” Southwestern Pegg, Brian. “The Archaeology of 1858 in the Lore 84, no. 1 (Spr. 2018): 1-28. [An archaeolog- Fraser Canyon [British Columbia].” BC Studies ical excavation of Alta revealed a complex social no. 196 (Win. 2017-18): 67-87. [Examines the organization.] war between the native Nlaka’pamux and the mostly American miners.] Puche Lorenzo, Miguel Ángel. “Aportación Alemana al Léxico Minero Español del Siglo Peña, Miguel, and Magdalena Lizardo. “Ex- XVIII [The German Contribution to the Spanish tractive Industry in the Dominican Republic: Mining Lexicon of the Eighteenth Century].” Ro- A History of Growth, Regression and Recov- manica Olomucensia 28, no. 2 (2016): 169-84. ery.” The Extractive Industries and Society 5, no. 3 (July 2018): 218-27. Reich, Peter L. “What Happened to Hispanic Natural Resources Law in California?” California Pettengill, Jim. “Druid Day’s War of Words: Legal History 13, no. 1 (Jan. 2018): 43-56. The Colorado Newspaperman Never Tired of Fighting for What He Thought was Right.” Wild “Research Focuses on Early Black Coal Min- West (Oct. 2017): 24-5. [Day owned the Solid ers in Appalachia.” Journal of Blacks in Higher Muldoon of Ouray, Colorado.] Education (27 June 2016). [https://www.jbhe. com/2016/06/research-focuses-on-early-black- Pettengill, Jim. “Red Mountain, Colorado.” coal-miners-in-appalachia. An exhibit on display Wild West 31, no. 1 (June 2018): 80-1. [A twen- at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice ty-mile narrow-gauge railroad was built from Sil- at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Is- verton to reach the silver mines.] land.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 119

“Rock Products 120th Anniversary: A Year- Sánchez Reyes, Gabriela. “Cofradías y Con- Long Series Presents a History of the Aggregates flictos Parroquiales en el Real Minero de Sulte- Industry.” Rock Products. [Covers 1896-1910 in pec, Provincia de La Plata, durante el Siglo XVIII 118, no. 7 (July 2015): 26-30; covers 1911-1920 [Confraternities and Parochial Conflicts in the in 118, no. 8 (Aug. 2015): 40-3; covers 1920- Royal Mine of Sultepec, Province of La Plata, dur- 1930 in 118, no. 9 (Sep. 2015): 28-31; covers ing the Eighteenth Century].” Boletín de Monu- 1930-1940 in 118, no. 10 (Oct. 2015): 28-32; mentos Históricos 38 (Sep.-Dec. 2016): 26-38. covers 1940-1949 in 118, no. 11 (Nov. 2015): 34- [Sultepec was among the first mineral discoveries 42; covers 1950-1960 in 118, no. 12 (Dec. 2015): by the Spanish, in 1531. This study examines the 62-8; covers 1961-1970 (part 1) in 119, no. 1 religiosity of the population (mulattoes, Spaniards (Jan. 2016): 34-6; covers 1960s (part 2) in 119, and natives), especially those miners in search of no. 2 (Feb. 2016): 42-7; covers 1971-1980 in 119, divine protection.] no. 3 (Mar. 2016): 54-60; covers 1980-1989 in 119, no. 4 (Apr. 2016): 38-44; covers 1990-1999 Sandlos, John, and Arn Keeling. “Pollution, in 119, no. 5 (May 2016): 38-41; covers 2000- Local Activism, and the Politics of Development 2009 in 119, no. 6 (June 2016): 43-6; timeline in the Canadian North.” RCC [Rachel Carson 1896-2009 in 119, no. 7 (July 2016): 16-60.] Center] Perspectives, no. 4 (2016): 25-32. [Ana- lyzes resistance since the 1950s to arsenic contam- Roll, Jarod. “Faith Powers and Gambling ination from the Giant Mine near Yellowknife, Spirits in Late Gilded Age Metal Mining.” In: Northwest Territories.] Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake (eds.). The Pew and the Savage, Thomas J. “Emeline and Jeremiah: Picket Line: Christianity and the American Work- Strains on a Mormon Forty-Niner Family.” Cali- ing Class, 74-95. Urbana: University of Illinois fornia History 93, no. 2 (Sum. 2016): 31-56. Press, 2016. [Analyzes the power of working-class enchantment with the magic of capitalism during Schept, Judah, and Jordan E. Mazurek. “Lay- the Pentacostal revival in Galena, Kansas.] ers of Violence: Coal Mining, Convict Leasing, and Carceral Tourism in Central Appalachia.” Roller, Michael P. “Late Modernity and Com- In: Jacqueline Wilson, et al. (eds.). The Palgrave munity Change in Lattimer No. 2: The American Handbook of Prison Tourism, 171-90. London: Twentieth Century as Seen through the Archae- Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. [Briefly examines the ology of a Pennsylvania Anthracite Town.” His- history of the use of Brushy Mountain Peniten- torical Archaeology 52, no. 1 (Mar. 2018): 70-84. tiary’s prisoners to mine coal in Tennessee.]

Romero, Adam M. “Beyond the Mother Schneider, Tsim D. “Coastal Lives and Resil- Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicaliza- ient Histories in Gold Rush-Era Native Califor- tion of California Gold Mining (1885–1905).” nia.” News from Native California 30, no. 4 (Sum. California History 95, no. 1 (2018): 2-24. 2017): 36-9.

Schwartzman, M. T. “Last Train to Nowhere.” Alaska 84, no. 6 (July 2018): 48-9. [Construction began on the Council City and Solomon River Railroad during the Nome gold rush in 1903.] 120 2018 Mining History Journal

Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. “It All Started Sommer, Susan. “Steeped in History.” Alas- with the Amish: Reflections on a Career in Iowa ka, 83, no. 7 (Sep. 2017): 79. [A lodge operates in History.” The Annals of Iowa75, no. 1 (2016): 47- the historic remains of the copper-mining town 60. [On several pages, the “dean of Iowa history” of Kennecott.] recalls her methodology for studying mining in Iowa.] Soodalter, Ron. “In the Battle for Blair Moun- tain, Coal Is Threatening to Bury Labor History.” Scott, Shaunna L., and Stephanie M. McSpir- The Progressive (Feb.-Mar. 2018): 52-6. [The West it. “The [2000] Martin County Coal-Waste Spill Virginia Coal Association appealed the 2009 list- and Beyond: Reflections and Suggestions.” In: ing of the battlefield on the National Register of Brian D. Lee, Daniel I. Carey, and Alice L. Jones Historic Places, resulting in the site’s delisting. (eds.). Water in Kentucky: Natural History, Com- Preservationists filed a lawsuit in 2010 to have munities, and Conservation, 73-80. Lexington: the delisting annulled. The locale was the scene University Press of Kentucky, 2017. of the 1921 four-day battle between ten thousand armed miners and personnel backed by the coal Selmier, W. Travis. “Mining History, Poems companies, where dozens of people died.] and Songs: Extensible Lessons about Extractable Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).” The Ex- Soodalter, Ron. “The Site of the Blair Moun- tractive Industries and Society 4, no. 3 (July 2017): tain Rebellion is Safe.” The Progressive (2 July 453-6. 2018). [Available online only. https://progressive.org/dispatches/blair-mountain-battlefield- Shepherd, William John. “Collection Profile: re-listed-as-historic-site-180702. After a court Catholic University’s Gilded Age and Progressive decision and federal review, the battlefield was Era Labor Collections.” Pennsylvania History 85, re-listed on the National Register of Historic no. 3 (Sum. 2018): 406-14. Places.]

Smith, Solomon K. “‘Business Is Dangerous Southcott, Chris, and David Natcher. “Ex- in the Extreme’: The Use of Innovation to Man- tractive Industries and Indigenous Subsistence age Risk and the Failure of Henry Heth in the Economies: A Complex and Unresolved Re- Early Virginia Coal Industry.” Virginia Magazine lationship.” Canadian Journal of Development of History and Biography 125, no. 4 (Oct. 2017): Studies 39, no. 1 (Mar. 2018): 137-54. 358-93. [Heth used a novel extraction technique developed by Philadelphia inventor George Hau- Spener, David. “From Worship to Work: A to.] Spiritual Is Adopted by the U. S. Labor Movement and the Left.” In: David Spener. We Shall Not Be “The Solar Compass.” Michigan History Moved/No Nos Moverán: Biography of a Song of Magazine 100, no. 4 (July 2016): 6. [Reveals the Struggle, 39-61. Philadelphia: Temple University important role the instrument played in survey- Press, 2016. [The first historic record of the use ing mineral-rich areas like the Upper Peninsula in of the hymn as labor-rights song was by striking Michigan.] West Virginia coal miners in 1931.] Recent Publications on the History of Mining 121

Spude, Robert L. “The Three Rock Point Sutherland, Fred. “Community-Driven Min- Mills at Dayton State Park.” Nevada in the West: ing Heritage in the Cuyuna Iron Mining District A Magazine of Popular History 7, Nos. 3 and 4 [Minnesota]: Past, Present, and Future Projects.” (Fall and Win. 2016): 13-7. [The mills worked The Extractive Industries and Society2, no. 3 (Aug. Comstock ores, 1860s-1910s; the author exam- 2015): 519-30. ines the people, technology, and preservation of remnants of the mills.] Tammemagi, Hans. “Peak history.” Canada’s History 98, no. 3 (June 2018): 60-1. [Provides the Staniscia, Stefania, and Charles Yuill. “Re- history of Red Mountain, British Columbia, in- flections on Mountaintop Mining as Industrial cluding the first gold claim, the town of Rossland, Heritage.” Change Over Time 7, no. 1 (Spr. 2017): and the organization of the Consolidated Mining 30-51. and Smelting Company of Canada (Cominco) in 1906, now known as Teck Resources.] Stephens, Lester D. “The Earth and Hu- mans before Adam: The Pre-Adamite Theory of Thistle, John, and Nancy Langston. “Entan- Georgia Geologist Matthew Fleming Stephen- gled Histories: Iron Ore Mining in Canada and son.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1 (Spr. the United States.” The Extractive Industries and 2016): 8-35. [The nineteenth-century assayer Society. 3, no. 2 (Apr. 2016): 269-77. and mining engineer professed Caucasian racial superiority.] Thistle, John. “Forgoing Full Value? Iron Ore Mining in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1954- Storey, Keith. “The Evolution of Commute 2014.” The Extractive Industries and Society 3, no. Work in the Resource Sectors in Canada and Aus- 1 (Jan. 2016): 103-16. tralia.” The Extractive Industries and Society 3, no. 3 (July 2016): 584-93. [Characterized by staying “Treadwell Gold.” Alaska 82, no. 10 (Dec. in camp accommodations, extended workdays 2016): 60-2. [The article considers the Douglas and rotational schedules, commute work has be- Island 1890 census report’s impact on mining and come standard practice since the 1980s.] tributary industries.]

Stremlau, Rose. “Witnessing the West: Bar- Tropea, Joseph L. “Monongah’s Italian Min- bara Longknife and the California Gold Rush.” ers: Mistreated in Life and Death.” VNY: La Voce In: Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien (eds.). de New York (4 Dec. 2017). [Available online The Native South: New Histories and Enduring only. https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/ Legacies, 162-80. Lincoln: University of Nebras- people/2017/12/04/monongahs-italian-miners- ka Press, 2017. mistreated-in-life-and-death. Also published in Italian. Misinformation has been perpetuated Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken. “Canadian Min- about the 1907 West Virginia disaster that killed ing in Latin America (1990 to Present): A Provi- 169 Italian miners.] sional History.” Canadian Journal of Latin Amer- ican and Caribbean Studies / Revue Canadienne “Uranium Miners.” In: Frances R. Franken- des Études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes 41, no. burg (ed.). Human Medical Experimentation: 1 (Feb. 2016): 95-113. From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs, 237-9. Santa Barbara, CA: Green- wood, 2017. [Also an e-book.] 122 2018 Mining History Journal

Vaughan, C. David. “Metallurgy and Its Con- Wayland, Joshua, and Matthew Kuniholm. sequences in the New Mexico Colony.” In: Ann “Legacies of Conflict and Natural Resource Re- F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher (eds.). The sistance in Guatemala.” The Extractive Industries Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos: and Society 3, no. 2 (Apr. 2016): 395-403. Change and Stability. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. [Also an e-book.] Weber, Brandon. “Cripple Creek [Colo- rado] 1894: The Time a State Militia Came to Vega y Ortega Báez, Rodrigo Antonio, and Help Strikers, not Hurt Them.” The Progressive José Daniel Serrano Juárez. “Los Estudios sobre (12 Feb. 2018). [Available online only. http:// el Carbón en las Revistas Minero-Mineralógicas progressive.org/dispatches/Cripple-Creek-1894- de la Ciudad de México, 1870-1879 [The Studies Mining-strike-180209.] about Coal in the Mineral-Mineralogical Maga- zines of Mexico City, 1870-1879].” Estudios de Wendell, E. Wilson and K. Olson Donald. Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México 54 “The Soudan Mine: Vermilion Range, St. Louis (2017): 62-75. [As a way to expand their profes- County Minnesota.” Mineralogical Record 48, no. sional and economic capacities during the crisis 4 (July 2017): 493-524. [Chronicles the history caused by the depreciation of silver, Mexican en- of the high-grade hematite ore mine, which is the gineers proposed to exploit coal deposits.] oldest and deepest mine in Minnesota.]

Vierra, P. J. “‘Maybe It Will Turn Out Better Wilton, Derek H. C. “Albert Peter Low: Than We Had Expected’”: The School of Mines The Iron Man of Labrador.” Geoscience Cana- and the Legal Foundation of the University of da 45, no. 1 (2018): 43-58. [In 1893-94, Low Texas System.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly took part in the Geological Survey of Canada’s 121, no. 4 (Apr. 2018): 361-87. exploration of the Labrador Peninsula in eastern Canada, which documented the vast iron ore de- Vigars, Kaitlin N. “Buried Beneath the Legis- posit of the world-class mining district.] lation It Gave Rise To: The Significance of Wood- ruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co.” Bos- Witcher, T. R. “Cutting through Obstacles: ton College Environmental Affairs Law Review 43, The Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Branch of no. 1 (2016): 235-49. [The 1880s case effectively the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.” stopped California’s hydraulic mining, and paved Civil Engineering 88, no. 3 (Mar. 2018): 42-5. the way for subsequent environmental legisla- [The railroad transported people and supplies to tion.] the mining community of Silverton, Colorado.]

Vogt, D. “A Review of Rock Cutting for Un- Wolfinbarger, Patrick. “Coal Decline has derground Mining: Past, Present, and Future.” Happened Twice before in State’s History.” Wyo- Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining ming Business Report 18, no. 6 (Sep. 2017): 5-17. and Metallurgy 116, no. 11 (Nov. 2016): 1011- 26. Wommack, Linda. “Mining Nevada’s Rich History: The Tonopah Historic Mining Park Re- Wasserman, Mark. “Tragedy and Opportu- members the 1900 Silver Strike that Triggered nity in Mexican Mining during the Revolution: a Second Rush to the State.” Wild West (Apr. Stories from the Engineering and Mining Journal.” 2018): 76-8. Mining History Journal 24 (2017): 40-52. Recent Publications on the History of Mining 123

Wood, Warren C. “Fraud and the California Cheng, Yuzhu. “Mining Impacts in Crested State Census of 1852: Power and Demographic Butte, Gunnison County.” Crested Butte: Loving Distortion in Gold Rush California.” Southern It to Death. Class papers BE100 FYE: Ecology and California Quarterly 100, no. 1 (Spr. 2018): 5-43. Human Impacts in the Rocky Mountains (2017): 14-20. https://www.coloradocollege.edu/aca- demics/dept/obe/documents/gray/FYE%20 Other Media: Crested%20Butte%202017%20FINAL-public. pdf#page=15. Baier, Jessica, and Jörg Baten. “Silver, Murder, and Institutions: Did the ‘Curse of Resources’ Im- “De Paepe, Duane, Collector (MSS 625).” pact on Homicide Rates?: Global Evidence since Manuscript Finding Aid, Descriptive Invento- 1890.” Online discussion paper. London, Centre ry. Bowling Green: Western Kentucky Univer- for Economic Policy Research. 2017. https:// sity, 2017. [The collection consists of material www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_ about saltpeter mining in Kentucky.] https:// papers/dp.php?dpno=12397. digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi?article=5377&context=dlsc_mss_fin_aid. Barrett, Evan. “[Montana’s] History Says Keep an Eye on Federal Coal Payments: A Montana Engstrom, Wesley C. “Liberty’s Last Post Of- Public Radio Commentary.” Highlands College fice: A Story of a Gold Mining Camp in Wash- of Montana Tech of the University of Montana ington State.” (Works by Local Authors, no. 3.) (15 Mar. 2016). http://digitalcommons.mtech. Central Washington University, 2016. http:// edu/lib_studies/73 digitalcommons.cwu.edu/local_authors/3.

Bisbee ’17. (89 min.) Directed Robert Greene. Goodwin’s Way. (DVD; 56 min.) Produced [New York]: 4th Row Films, 2018. [In the docu- and directed by Neil Vokey. [British Columbia]: mentary, the Arizona community reflects on the Washboard Films, 2016. [In Cumberland, BC, a centennial of the brutal deportation of about 2009 proposal for a new coal mine connected res- twelve hundred immigrant miners.] idents with the legacy of miner and labor activist Ginger Goodwin, slain a century prior by police Boal, William M. “Work Intensity and Work- under mysterious circumstances.] er Safety in Early Twentieth-Century Coal Min- ing.” Unpublished paper. Des Moines: College Lang, Aaron Kyle. “Graveyards of Indus- of Business and Public Administration, Drake try: Exploring the Effects of a Resource-Reliant University (2016): 1-30. http://wmboal.com/ Economy on the Towns of Early Alberta.” Geo- research/Boal2017WorkIntensity.pdf. convention, Calgary, Alberta, May 7-11, 2018. https://www.geoconvention.com/uploads/ Centralia, Pennsylvania’s Lost Town. (DVD; 2018abstracts/238_GC2018_Graveyards_of_ 92 min.) Directed by Joe Sapienza, produced by Industry-Exploring_the_effects_of_a_resource- Allyson Kircher. [Wilkes-Barre, PA]: Centone reliant_economy.pdf. Pictures, 2017. [A 1962 underground coal mine fire forced town residents to vacate their homes.] Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal Wa r . (71 min.) Directed by Leonidas Vardaros. [Greece]: 2016. https://vimeo.com/164340894. 124 2018 Mining History Journal

Mansbridge, Peter, and Tom Murphy. The “Rush for Gold: The Untold Stories of the Westray [Nova Scotia] Disaster: 25 Years Later. Gold Rush.” (10 min.) Nevada City Rancheria, (Streaming video; 11 min.) Toronto: Canadian CA: FilmSight Productions in collaboration with Broadcasting Corporation, 2017. . highlight the stories of the Nisenan tribe, Chi- nese immigrant workers, and the environment.] Marshall, Hannah. “Guide to the Records of http://www.nevadacityrancheria.org. the South Dakota Department of Health.” Pierre: South Dakota State Archives, 2016. [Includes re- Wolfe, Julia, composer. Anthracite cords on uranium mining.] Fields. (CD.) Brooklyn: Cantaloupe Music, 2015. [Also a musical score and streaming audio. The Miller, Baylee. “Understanding Fraud in the multimedia oratorio features a choir and numer- Silver Mining Districts of the Western United ous instruments.] States in the Second Half of the 19th Centu- ry.” UMTC Undergraduate Research Presen- tations and Papers. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, 2016. http://hdl.handle. net/11299/177417.