We the Miners

We the Miners
Author: Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674248112

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The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.


We the Miners
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Andrea G. McDowell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-28 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held
The Miner's Canary
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Lani GUINIER
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not jus
In Loving Memory of Work
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Craig Oldham
Categories: Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

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Miner's Daughter
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: GRETCHEN MORAN LASKAS
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Backbreaking work, threadbare clothes, and black coal dust choking the air -- this is what a miner's daughter knows. Willa Lowell fears that this dust marks her
Black Powder and Hand Steel
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Otis E. Young
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-14 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack, black powder, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, and the