Recent Publications on the History ofMining

Compiled by Lysa Wegman-French

The following list contains atticles and disser­ Bailey, Rebecca]. "Matewan Before the Mas­ tations that relate to the history of mining. It sacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in includes all types of mining in North America. Mingo County, [West Virginia,] 1793-1920." Ph.D. It does not include books, since they are covered diss. , West Virginia University, 2001. in the book review section of the journal, nor does it include book review art icles. Thanks to Barksdale, John Allen. "A Construction of those who sent in suggestions for this installment. Community among Miners during the Califotnia We welcome citations for inclusion in the next Gold Rush. " Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State update. University, 2002.

Amundson, Michael A. "Mining the Grand Bartos, Paul]. "Colorado School of Mines Canyon to Save It: The Orphan Lode Uranium Geology Museum." Rocles&Minerals, 76, no. 6 Mine and National Security." Western Historical (Novembet/December 2001): 406+. Quarterly 32 (Autumn 2001): 320-345. "Blair, Nevada." Centra/Nevada's Glorious Anderson, Enoch. "The Morning After the Past 24, no. 1 (May 2001): 18-20. [Reprint of Gold Rush: Uournalist] Prentice Mulford and the 1907 atticle .] American Dream (California)." Ph.D. diss., The Claremont Graduate University, 2002. Boswell, Teny and John Brueggemann. "La­ bor Market Segmentation and the Cultural Divi­ Armfield, Felix L. "Fire on the Prairies: The sion of Labor in the [Arizona] Copper Mining 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot." j ountal ofIlli ­ Industry, 1880-1920." Resem"cb in Social Move­ nois Histmy 3, no. 3 (2000): 185-200. [Italian vs. ments, Conflicts and Change 22 (2000): 193-217. African Ametican coal miners.] Browning-Aiken, Anne. "The Transforma­ Arnold, Andrew Bernard. "Ordeting Coal: La­ tion of Mexican Copper Miners [in Cananea, bor, Law, and Business in Central Pennsylvania, Sonora]: The Dynamics of Social Agency and 1870-1900." Ph.D. diss., The University of Notth Mineral Policy as Economic Development Tools." Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 2000.

"Assessing a Centuty of Mining: Huge Safety Brueggemann,Jolm and Cliff Brown. "Stt·a­ Gains." OccupationalHea/tb &Safety69, no. 4 tegic Labor Organizing in the Era of Industrial (April 2000): 20+. Transformation: A Comparative Histotical Analy­ sis of Unionization in Steel and Coal, 1870-1916." 84 2002 Mining History journal

Review ofRadic al Political Economics 32, no. 4 Clements, Eric L. "Black Hawk's Jackpot De­ (September 2000): 541-76. Available: cade: A Metamotphosis in Three Acts." jounzal www.elsevier. com/inca/ publications/ store/6/ 2/ of the West 41, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 59-70. 0/ 1/ 7/ 2/ [Gaming in historic Colorado towns.]

Brugge, Doug and Rob Goble. "The Histoty Cmtis, Kent Alexander. "An Ecology of In­ of Uranium Mining and the Navajo People." dustty: Mit1ing and Nature in [Butte & Anaconda] Americanjournal ofPubli c Health, 92, no.9 (Sep­ Western Montana, 1860-1907." Ph.D. cliss., Uni­ tember 2002): 1410+ . versity of Kansas, 2001.

Burnett, Nancy Svet. "'Where the Rails Turn Davey, William and Richard MacKinnon. Up": Slovenes Come to Richwood [West Vir­ "Nicknaming Patterns and Traditions among ginia]." Goldenseal26, no. 4 (2000): 38-45. Cape Breton Coal Miners." Acadiensis[Canada] 30, no. 2 (2001): 71-83. Byerly, Edward A. "F. Hoffman and the Cali­ fornia State Geographical Survey, 1860-1874." D obado, Ragel and Gustavo Marrero. Southern California Quarterly82, no. 4 (2000): "Mineria, crecimiento economico y costes de la 343-364. independencia en Mexico." Revista de Historia Economica 19, no. 3 (Fall-Winter 2001): 573-611. Camargo, ].A. "Contribution of Spanish­ [Relationship between mining expansion and eco­ Amelican Silver Mines (1570-1820) to d1e Present nomic growth in New Spain; the detem1inants High Mercllly Concentrations in d1e Global En­ of d1e silver production; and an estimate of d1e vironment: A Review." Chemosphere48, no. 1 economic cost of independence for Mexico.] Ouly 2002): 51-7. Dobb, Edwin. "New Life in a Death Trap." Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Chronol­ Discover21, no. 12 (December 2000): 86+. [Al­ og)lofMineralsDeuelopmentin Canada. Ottawa, gae in d1e acidic waters of d1e fom1er open-pit Ontario, 2000. [Available d1rough NTIS.] copper mine in Butte, Montana.]

Case, Clu·istopher Stephen. "Goldfield, Ne­ Doster, Alexis and Berthold Steinhilber, vada: A Case Study of Colonialism in d1e Atneri­ photog. "Ghost Towns by Night Light." can West, 1900-1920." Ph.D. diss, NOtthernAt·i­ Smithsonian 32, no. 2 (2001): 110-118. [Photo­ zona University, 2002. graphs of ghost towns in California, Utah, Colo­ rado, and New Mexico.] "Central Nevada Mine Accidents, 1917-1918." Central Nevada's Glorio·us Past 24, no. 1 (May Dublin, TI1omas and Melissa Doak. "Miner's 2001): 13-17. Son, [Coal] Miners' Photographer: The Life and Work of George Hatvan. "jounzalfor Multime­ Clu·istensen, Bonnie. "'Nod1ing up Here but diaHistory3 (2000). 3. Atticle and 280 photo­ Foreigners and Coal Slack': World War I and d1e graphs available at www.albany.edu.jmmh Transformation of Red Lodge." Montana 52, no. 3 (Autunm 2002): 16-29. Recent Publications 85

Evanko, Paul]. "Answeting the Call of Honor: Gerard, David. "Transaction Costs and the The Origins of the Pennsylvania State Police." Value of Mining Claims." LandEconomics77, Pennsylvania Heritage27, no. 3 (2001): 22-29. no. 3 (August 2001): 371-84. ['The decline in claim [Established due to union activity in coal mines.] disputes reduced ilie value of full title , and the d emand for patents decreased.] Availability: Faust, 13ob. "Lead in the Water: Powet~ Pro­ www.wisc.edu/ wiscon sinpress/ journals/ gressivism, and Resource Control in a Missouri landccon.hU11l Mining Community." AgriculturaiHistoly76, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 405-418. Goin, Peter and Elizabeth Raymond. "Living in Antlu-acite: Mining Landscape and Sense of F~rry, Elizabeth Emma. "Veins of Value: Pat­ Place in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania." Public rimony and the Reprocluction of Power in a Mexi­ Historian 23, no. 2 (Spting 2001): 29+. can Mining Cooperative." Ph.D. diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001. lThe Santa Fe Coop­ "Goldfield Photos." Central Nevada's Glo­ erative in Guanajuato, 1939-1990s.] riousPast24, no. 1 (May 2001): 3-6. [Selection fi·om over 50 Goldfield photos recently acquired "First Year's Record of Bullfrog, Nevada and by histotical society.) its Matvelous Mines." Central Nevada's Glori­ ousPast25, no. 2 (November2002): 16-19. [Re­ Gower, Shirley. "A Home in Cassity [West Vir­ print from 1905.] ginia]." Goldenseal 28, no. 2 (2002): 50-55.

Fish, Peter. "King Soapy. Su nset(National edi­ Gray, Roland F. "Let Them Dig Coal." tion) 207, no. 1 (July 2001): 79-81. [Soapy Smith.J JlifontblyReview54, no. 4 (September 2002): 51. [Plans to use I !-bomb in Inuit-occupied area to Fleischman, Richard K. and Davis Oldroyd. create harbor in order to ship coal.] "An Imperial Connection? Contrasting Account­ ing Practices in the Coal Mines of North-East I Ia llahan, Kirk "Ivy Lee and the Rockefellers' England and Nova Scotia, 1825-1900." Account­ Hesponse to d1e 1913-1914 Colorado Coal Snike." ing llistoriansjournal28, no. 2 (2001): 31-62. Journal ofPublic Relations Researcb 1-1, no. 4 (October 2002): 265+. [Ludlow Massacre.] Fuller, Craig. "Finns and d1e Winter Quarters Mine Disaster." Utab Historical Quarter/y70, I Talsey,John R. "Native Copper." Micbigctn no. 2 (Spting 2002): 123-139. Hist01yMagaz ine85, no. 6 (2001): 20-25. [Na­ tive American use of copper before European Gardine r, Harvey. "Mining Among the contact.] Clouds: 1he Mosquito Range and d1e Otigins of Colorado's Silver Boom." Colorado Histmy no. Hatcher, Paul. "The Deaili of Arizona Min­ 6 (2002): 1-132. ing Towns and the Effect Their Demise had on Phoenix and Tucson." M.A. thesis, California Garrett, Donald E. "Sodium Sulfate- 5,000 State University, Dominguez I-Iills; 2001. Years of.Mining and Processing Salt Cake." illfin­ ing Engineering 54, no. 2 (Februaty 2002): 17- 22. 86 2002Mining Hist01y]ounta!

Hendricks, Rick. "Searching for Lost Padre: 1930s.") Dvedomovini/TwoHomelands 13 Eighteenth-Centuty Mining Claims in the Organ (2001): 73-99. Mountains and Greater El Paso Del Notte Area." Password 46, no. 2 (2001): 55-78. [Spanish at­ Krist, Bill. "Phoenix Wobblies Remember tempts to make its northern colonies economi­ Bisbee Deportation." Industrial Wodeer98, no. cally viable.] 7 (September 2001): 10.

Hidalgo, Tom. "En Las Montanas: Spaniards Krueger, James Robert. "Relocating Regula­ in Southern West Virginia." Goldensea/27, no. 4 tion: Environmental Politics and the Montana (2001): 52-59. [Early twentieth century coal min­ Gold Mining Industry." Ph.D. cliss., Clark Uni­ ers.] versity, 2001.

Hotson, Freel W. "The Knob Lake Airlift." Krupar,]oseph].Jr. "The Ghost Town of Sil­ C.A .H.S. [Canada] 38, no. 3 (2000): 94-101, 115- ver Creek: A Remnant of the Clear Creek Silver 116. [Support for remote northern Labrador Boom." ColomdoHeritage(Surnmer 2002): 16- mining and railroad projects, 1946-47.] 21.

Howard, Walter T. 'The National Miners Langford, Tom and Chris Frazer. "The Cold Union: Communists and Miners in the Pennsyl­ War and Working-Class [socialist] Politics in the vania Anthracite, 1928-1931." Pennsylvania Coal Mining Communities of the Crowsnest Pass, Jl!Iagazine ojHisto1y andBiogt'CijJhy 125, no. 1-2 1945-1958." Laho·wfle T1-availno. 49 (Spring, (2001): 91-124. 2002): 43-81. [British Columbia/ Alberta border]

Jenkins, Robert F. andJeny A. Lorengo. "Min­ Lasell, Rebecca Renee. "Gold Rush Commer­ erals, Mines, and History [Butte, Montana]." Jl1in­ cial Characteristics: An Examination of "Fire­ eralogicalRecord33, no. 1 Qanuary/ February proof'' Storefronts and the Blood, Brother and 2002): 5+. Company Mercantile in Elizabethtown, Califor­ nia." M.A. thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, Johanningsmeier, Edward . "The Trade Union 2000. Unity League: American Communists and the Transition to Industrial Unionism: 1928-1934." Lee, B. "It Started with a (Mining) Boom." LaborHistoly42, no. 2 (May, 2001): 159-77. South Dakota Histo1y 31, Patt 3/4 (2001): 269- 288. Kinchloe, Jessica Leigh. '"The Best the Mar­ ket Affords': Food Consumption at the Mer­ Leitner, Jonathan. "Reel Metal in the Age of chants' Exchange Hotel, Aurora, Nevada." M.A. Capital: The Political Ecology of Copper in the thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2001. Ni.neteenth-Centuty World-Economy." Review 24, no. 3 (2001): 373-437. Available at http:!/ Klemencic, Matjaz. "Razvoj slovenske fbc.binghamton.edu/ rev.htm izseljenske skupnosti v Rock Springsu, Wyoming, ocl naselitve do zacetka 30-ih let 20. Stoletja." Linvi lle, Shirley. "Life in Breece Coal Camp: ("The Development of the Slovene Emigrant Memories of a Coal Miner's Wife." Goldenseal Community in Rock Springs, \'V'yoming, from the 27, no. 2 (2001): 40-43. [1923-1928] First Slovene Settlers until tl1e Beginning of the Recent Publications 87

Lonegren, Hans. "The True Story of the Lost chaeological Study of Worker Agency in Cabin Mine [Dakota Tenitoryl." Swedish-A1neri­ [Helvetia] a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town, ccmHistorical Qucnterly52, no. 2 (2001): 79-95. 1891-1947." Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 2002.

Lynch, Michael Eugene. "Confederate War Molloy, Lany. "Touiing d1e Copper Country." Industry: The Niter and Mining Bureau" M.A. li!JicbigcmHistoJyJl1agazine8S, no. 6 (2001): 31- thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2001. 39. [Keweenaw Peninsula.]

Lynch, Robert A. et al. "The Relationship be­ Montrie, Chad. "To Save the Land and People: tween Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated A History of Opposition to Coal Surface Mining Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Commu­ in Appalachia." Ph.D. diss., Ohio State Univer­ nity." journal ~fhnvimnmenta!Health, 63, no. sity, 2001. 3 (October 2000): 9+. [Northeastem Oklahoma.] Montr·ie, Chad. "Agriculture, Christian Stew­ Marcus, Irwin M. "Migration, Mill ing, Min­ ardship, and Aesthetics: Ohio Fanners' Opposi­ ing: The Johnstown Heritage Discove1y Center tion to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s." Obio and d1e Windber Coal Heritage Center." Penn­ Histo?~)' 111 (Winter-Spring 2002): 44-63. syluaniaHisto?y69, no. 1 (2002): 85-93. Myers, MarkS. "Coal Mechanization and Mi­ Margolin, Peter R. "The Sink Hole at Ban­ gration from McDowell County, West Virginia, dana: An Historic Blue Ridge Mica Mine Reveals 1932-1970." M.A. thesis, East Tennessee State Its Past." N011h CamlinaArchaeology49 (2000): University, 2001. 43-58. [Native American mining; mica was trans­ polted to the Adena and HopewelJ cultural cen­ Newton, L. L. "Lloyd" and David Tweed. Wil­ ters in d1e Ohio River Valley.] liam "Boss" Tweed, Emigrant Turned Gold Seeker. WindRiverJl1ountaineer16, no. 2 (2002): McDaniel, Dianne. "Tar Creek Superfund Site: 21-37. [South Pass City, Wyoming, 1867-1907.] 'The Only Superfund Site That Is Used As A Rec­ reational Area."' Papers ~ltbe Algonquian Con­ "Nye County, 1864." CentralNeuada:s-Glo­ ference 31 (2000): 229-236. rious Past24, no. 1 (May 2001): 7-10. [Reprint of 1864 article.] McGehee, Stuart. "Historic Coalwood [West Virginia]." Goldenseal 27, no. 2 (2001): 52-56, Parra, Alma. "Consules y Empresarios: 58-59. Expresion Local del Expansionismo Estadunidense Hacia Fines Del Siglo XJX" [Con­ McGivern, David Francis. '"This is Mine.': A suls and entr·epreneurs: local expression ofArneri­ History of Crow Creek [Alaska]." M.A. thesis, can expansionism toward the end of the 19th cen­ University of Alaska Anchorage, 2000. [Frontier tury]. Secuencia [Mexico] 48 (2000): 171-182. mythology (rugged individualism and private [Importance of d1e Ar11erican consular sector as property) vs. a belief d1at natural resources have a promoter of the expansionist interests of the a voice in the history of the earth.] United States in the Mexican mining sector.]

Metheny, Karen Bescherer. "The Landscape of Industry and the Negotiation of Place: An Ar- 88 2002Mining Hist01y]ournal

Piatt, Michael. "Sinking the Bell Lode Shaft: Qucuterly45 (Spring 2001): 4-33. Bodie, Califomia." NarrowGaugeandSbortLine Gazette27, no. 4 (Septembel/October 2001): 36- Robinson, Susan. ''The Story of the Copper 41. Miner Statue." Rocks&Minerals76, no. 3 (May/ Jun2001): 189. [Houghton, Michigan.] Pierce, Michael. "The Populist President of the American Federation of Labor: The Career Romero, Tom 1. , II. "Law, Order, and Munici­ ofJohn McBride, 1880-1895." LaborHist01y 41, pal Authority in Colorado's Early Mining Towns." no. 1 (February 2000): 5+. [United Mine Work­ 77JeColon:tdoLawyer31, no. 10 (0ctober2002): ers of America.] 134+.

Pretes, Michael. "Touring Mines and Mining Rosenberg, Neil V. "The Springhill Mine Tourists." AnnalsofTourismResearcb29, no. 2 [Nova Scotia] Disaster Songs: Class, Memory, and (2002): 439-456. [Potosi, Bolivia] Persistence in Canadian Folksong." Northeast Folie/ore 35 (2000): 153-187. Price, Paxton P. "Georgetown [New Mexico] Produced Millions in Silver~ Then Quit." Password Rossel, ]org. "Industrial Structure, Union 47, no.l (2002): 42-47. Strategy, and Strike Activity in American Bitumi­ nous Coal Mining, 1881-1894." Social Science Rave r~ Anne. "Slag Heaps Into Gardens." New Histmy 26, no. 1 (2002): 1-32. York Times, 18 January 2001, Fl. [Efforts to reclaim polluted lands ofVintonclale, Pennsylva­ Rouillard, Jacques. "La Greve de L'amiante de nia without erasing history.] 1949 et le Projet de Reforme de !'Enterprise: Comment le Patronat a Defendu son Droit de Reeve, W. Paul. "Mormons, Miners, and Gerance." Labow!Le 71-auail no. 46 (Fall, 2000): Southern Paiutes: Making Space on the Nine­ 307-42. Available at http:// www.mun.ca/cclh/ teenth-Centwy Western Frontier [Utah, Ari­ lit/ [The asbestos strike of 1949 (in Quebec) zona]." Ph.D. diss., University of Utah, 2002. and the project of reform of d1e enterprise: how the patronate defended irs right of management.] Rennick, Penny. "Money and Minerals: The Alaska Syndicate." Alaska Geogmpbic 29, no. 3 Seager, David R. "Barre, Vermont Granite (2002): 70-71. Workers and the Struggle against Silicosis, 1890- 1960." Labo1·HistOJy42, no. 1 (February 2001): Reynolds, David. "Brass Bands and Copper 61-79. Kings." Jl!fontana 52, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 62- 65. [Butte feud.] Seger, ChJistina Rabe. "Alaskan Prospects: Using the Mining Prospector Image in Early Rich, Beverly. "Colorado's Red Mountain Twentieth-CentUty Alaska." Ph.D. diss., Univer­ Project." Rocles & A1inemls 75, no. 6 (Novem­ sity of Arizona, 2001. bel/December 2000):402-404. [Preservation ef­ forts.] Smith, Duane. "Bancroft Oral History Project." journal oftbe West, 40, no. 4 (Fall2001): Robinson, John W. "Rushing for Gold Via the 77+. Southern Overland Route." Dogtown Tenitorial RecentPublications 89

Spilsbuty, Duane. "Dame Shirley: The Best U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administra­ of the California Gold Rush Writers." Dogtown tion. J\lline Disasters. Arlington, Virginia, 2000. Territorial Quarterly45 (2001): 43-50. [Legislative hist01y; coal, metal and nonmetal mine disasters, 1839-2000; discussions of Stonebanks, Roger. "No. 1 .Mine: Racism Re­ twelve specific disasters, 1900-1974. Avail­ visited." Labot.ufle Travail no. 48 (FaU, 2001): able from NTIS.] 358-60. [Call for recognition of dead miners in B1itish Columbia.] Uegama, Jennifer Kino. "Mining Meaning: The Reinhabitation of the Concentrator Mill at Stuart, Granville. "Granville Stuart: A Britannia Beach [British Columbia]." M.Arch. Dogtown Miner's Memoir, 1852-1854." Dogtown thesis, Dall1ousie University (Canada), 2001. [In­ Territorial Quarterly46 (2001): 39-55, 57-60. stalling a water treatment plant in historic mill, and inte1preting mill and water treatment to pub­ Swoboda, Edward R. "Histoty of the Tour­ lic.] maline Queen Mine San Diego County, Califor­ nia." MinemlogiccilRecord33, no. 5 (Seplembet! Waldron-Merithew, Caroline Anne. "'The October 2002): 409+. Great Spilit of Solidarity': 111e Illinois Valley Min­ ing Communities and the F01mation of Intereth­ Taniguchi, Nancy]. "An Explosive Lesson: nic Consciousness, 1889-1917." Ph.D. cliss., Uni­ Gome r'T11omas, Safety, and the Winter Qua1ters versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. Mine Disaster." Utah Historical Quarterly 70, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 140-157. "Weepah, Nevada, 1927." Centrctl Nevada's Glorious Past24, no. 2 (December 2001): 4-9. Teisch, Jessica Beth. "Engineering Progress: [Selections from a photographic collection.] Califo rnians and the Making of a Global Economy." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Wells, Merle W. "Wilson Waddingham in Berkeley, 2001. [1880's-1920's.] Idaho." Idaho Yesteldc~ys44, no. 4 (2001): 36-46. [Miner, promoter, investor; reprinted from the Tilley, Ch1istine E. "Public and P1ivate Women 1968 Bmnd Boole of the Denver Westerners.] ofVirginia City, Nevada: TI1e Role of Domestic­ ity as a Means of Anonymity and Attention." M.A. Weston,Julie. "Idaho Tailings." Rendezvous thesis, Southern Connecticut State University, 35, no. 1 (2000): 29-44. [Superfund site at 2001. Kellogg.]

Tilton, John E. "Long-Term Trends in Cop­ Wilson, Anne Elizabeth. "Michigan Iron Ore per Prices." J\lf.ining Engineering 54, no. 7 (July Mining Safety: Policies and Fatalities, 1880-1979." 2002): 25-32. Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 2001.

Toler, Jessica L. "Dead Canaries: 111e Struggle \'{!ilson, Gregoty. "'Our Chronic and Desper­ of Appalachian Coal Miners to Get Black Lung ate Situation': Antl11·acite Communities and the Benefits. journal oj'Gende1; Race cmdjustice 6 Emergence of Redevelopment Policy in Penn­ (Spdng-Summer 2002): 163-181. sylvania and the United States, 1945-1965." In­ ternational Review ofSocial HistoJy 47, Supple­ ment (2002): 137-158 . .,..