Recent Publications on the History of Mining Compiled by Lysa Wegman-French The following bibliography contains books, Barnes, Shirley Moore. The Quest: The Ad- dissertations and theses, articles and chapters, ventures and Treasure of Jack Yore on the Western and other media—organized within those four Frontier. Tucson: Express Document Center, categories—that relate to the history of all types University of Arizona Libraries, 2014. [Prospec- of mining in North America (Canada, the United tor who covered several western states.] States, and Central America). It does not include book review articles. We thank all the members Beaupre, Sylvain. Des Risques, des Mines et who have sent in contributions, and welcome sug- des Hommes: La Perception du Risque Chez les gestions for our next compilation. Mineurs de Fond de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue [Qué- bec] [Risks, Mining and Men: The Perception of Books: Risk among Miners in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue] . Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2012. Adams, Maynard Cornett. The French Gold [Also an e-book.] Seekers: 1756-1761. Fort Lupton, CO: M.C.A. Books, 2014. [San Luis Valley, Colorado.] Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight Alex, Thomas C., and Robert E. Wirt. Around for Environmental Justice. Urbana: University of Terlingua. (Images of America series.) Charles- Illinois Press, 2013. [Also an e-book.] ton, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. [Texas mer- cury mining town.] Berman, David R. Radicalism in the Moun- tain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Min- Allen, Royce, and Gary Willden. South Da- ers, and Wobblies. Boulder: University Press of vis County [Utah]. (Images of America series.) Colorado, 2013. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. [Also an e-book. Copper, gold, and silver prospecting Berrien, Gay Holland. Grover Hayden Ladd: and mining.] A New River Packer. Happy Camp, CA: Nature- graph Publishers, 2014. [A muleteer in Trinity Allison, James Robert, III. Sovereignty for County, California.] Survival: American Energy Development and In- dian Self-Determination. (Lamar Series in West- Bjorklund, Linda. A Brief History of Fairplay ern History.) New Haven, CT: Yale University [Colorado]. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013. Press, 2015. Boggan, Steve. Gold Fever: One Man’s Ad- Bardi, Ugo. Extracted: How the Quest for ventures on the Trail of the [California] Gold Rush. Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet: A Report N.p.: Oneworld Publications, 2015. [Also an e- to the Club of Rome. White River Junction, VT: book. A reporter learns about the history of min- Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014. ing while learning to prospect.] Recent Publications 105 Bonewitz, Ra. Gems. (Smithsonian Nature Burr, Baldwin G. Socorro [New Mexico]. (Im- Guide.) New York: DK Pub., 2013. ages of America series.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. Bradbury, John. Frontier History along Idaho’s Clearwater River: Pioneers, Miners and Lumber- Burt, Roger, et al. Mining in Cornwall and jacks. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014. [Also Devon: Mines and Men. Exeter: University of Ex- an e-book.] eter Press, 2014. Brown, Kendall W. Minería e Imperio En Butler, Mike, O. T. Davis, and the Monte Hispanoamérica Colonial: Producción, Mercados Vista Historical Society. Southern Colorado: y Trabajo [Mining and Empire in Colonial Latin O.T. Davis Collection. (Images of America series.) America: Production, Markets and Labor]. Lima: Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. [Also Banco Central de Reserva del Perú: Instituto de an e-book. A photographic book that includes a Estudios Peruanos, 2015. chapter on mines.] Brown, Priscilla Purcell. Joplin [Missouri]. Butler, Mike. Great Sand Dunes National (Images of America series.) Charleston, SC: Ar- Park [Colorado]. (Images of America series.) cadia Publishing, 2013. [Lead-zinc mines.] Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. Bulik, Mark. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Campbell, C. E. Mines, Cattle, and Rebel- Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War. New lion: The History of the Corralitos Ranch, with an York: Fordham University Press, 2015. [Also an Intimate Portrait of the Mexican Revolution. Sun- e-book. Follows Irish immigrants to the anthra- set Beach, CA: Green Street Publications, 2014. cite region of Pennsylvania.] [Chihuahua, Mexico.] Bullock, David. Coal Wars: Unions, Strikes, Cathey, David. A Culinary History of Pitts- and Violence in Depression-Era Central Washing- burg County [Oklahoma]: Little Italy, Choctaw ton. Pullman: Washington State University, 2014. Beer and Lamb Fries. Charleston, SC: American [Roslyn’s labor history as set in the story of the Palate, 2013. [Coal mining town in the Choctaw author’s grandfather.] nation.] Burney, Michael S. Historical Archaeology of Chester, Eric Thomas. The Wobblies in their the Big Five Gold Mine: Excavations along the Bit- Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Indus- ter Creek, Northeast of the Town of Red River, Taos trial Workers of the World during the World War County, New Mexico. Berlin: Lambert Academic I Era. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2014. [Also Publishing, 2014. [Also an e-book.] an e-book. Includes the Bisbee, Arizona, deporta- tion, and the copper miners’ strike in Butte, Mon- Burney, Michael S. The Red River Gold Mines tana.] of Northern Taos County, New Mexico: An Anno- tated Bibliography of Geology, History, and His- Chin, Art, and Doug Chin. The Chinese in torical Archaeology. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Washington State. Seattle: OCA Greater Seattle, Press, 2015. 2013. 106 2015 Mining History Journal Clapp, Nicholas. To Dance with the Devil: Egan, Ken. Montana 1864: Indians, Emi- Virginia City [Nevada]. San Diego: Sunbelt Pub- grants, and Gold in the Territorial Year. Helena, lications, 2015. MT: Riverbend Press, 2014. Cleveland, Todd. Stones of Contention: A Endicott, Stephen L. Raising the Work- History of Africa’s Diamonds. Athens: Ohio Uni- ers’ Flag: The Workers’ Unity League in Canada, versity Press, 2014. 1930-1936. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. [Also an e-book.] Crosley, Donald E. Hang ‘Em on their His- tory: Montana Vigilante Crusade 1860s. Butte: Everhart, Duane K. Galena, Illinois: Gen- Insty Prints, 2013. esis to Renaissance. Chicago: Adams Press, 2014. [Lead mines.] Davis, Carolyn O’Bagy, and Terrence M. Humble. Silver City [New Mexico]. (Images of Faucher, Alexandre. De l’Or . Et Des Putes? America series.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub- [Gold . and Whores?]. Rouyn-Noranda, Qué- lishing, 2013. bec: Éditions du Quartz, 2014. [Roc d’Or, a min- ing village in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue district Derby, George Horatio, et al. The Army Sur- in Québec, populated by squatters from the mid- veys of Gold Rush California: Reports of the Topo- 1930s to the mid-1940s.] graphical Engineers, 1849-1851. Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2015. [Also an e-book.] Fear, Joe. Prospecting for Silver in Marble, Colorado. Denver: n.p., 2013. [Late 1950s or Di Stefano, Diana L. Encounters in Avalanche early 1960s.] Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920. (Emil and Kathleen Sick Se- Ferguson, Julie. Arizona’s Back Roads: A ries in Western History and Biography.) Seattle: Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners. At- Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in glen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2014. association with University of Washington Press, 2013. [Also an e-book. Includes mining and rail- Foulke, Thomas K., et al. Economic Trends in way companies triggering avalanches.] Wyoming’s Mineral Sector: Coal. (2nd ed.) Lara- mie: University of Wyoming Extension, 2013. Downs, Art. Cariboo Gold Rush: The Stam- [Also available on the internet. Includes history pede that Made BC [British Columbia]. (Amaz- of coal mining.] ing Stories series.) Victoria, BC: Heritage, 2013. [Also an e-book.] Fountain, Bill, and Sandra F. Mather. Chas- ing the Dream: Ben Stanley Revett’s Dredge Boats Dunn, Joe P. “I have Done the Work”: The on the Lower Swan River, Breckenridge, Colorado. Times and Life of James Hutchison Kerr. Cape Breckenridge: Breckenridge Heritage Alliance, Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University 2014. [Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-cen- Press, 2014. [His many faceted life included met- tury gold mining.] allurgy and mining engineering in the 1800s.] Recent Publications 107 Fox, Sarah Alisabeth. Downwind: A People’s Green, James R. The Devil Is Here in These History of the Nuclear West. Lincoln: University Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle of Nebraska Press, 2014. [Also an e-book. In- for Freedom. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, cludes uranium mining.] 2015. [Also an e-book.] Gale, Kira. Meriwether Lewis: The Assassina- Green, Michael S. Nevada: A History of the tion of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Silver State. Reno: University of Nevada Press, Mexico. Omaha: River Junction Press, 2015. [Also 2015. [Also an e-book.] an e-book. Set in a political context, theorizes that General James Wilkinson and “John Smith T.,” a Handverger, Paul A., and the Clarkdale His- wealthy lead mine operator, organized the assas- torical Society. Clarkdale [Arizona]. (Images of sination to remove obstacles to seizing Mexico’s America series.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub- silver mines.] lishing, 2014. Gámez, Moisés. Cohesión, Movilizaciones y Hansen, Colleen Clancy. Destination: Butte, Tenacidad: Trabajadores y Empresas en la Minería Montana. Helena: Colleen Clancy Hansen, 2014. y la Metalurgia Potosinas, 1880-1926 [Cohesion, [Experiences of Welsh and Irish immigrants.] Mobilizations