Black Powder and Hand Steel: Mines and Machines on the Old Western Frontier

Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack,...
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Author: Otis E. Young
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Black Powder and Hand Steel: Mines and Machines on the Old Western Frontier by Young, Otis E.

Black Powder and Hand Steel: Mines and Machines on the Old Western Frontier

¥5,606

Black Powder and Hand Steel: Mines and Machines on the Old Western Frontier

¥5,606
Author: Otis E. Young
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 steam engine. Those were the years of bonanza strikes: Henry Wickenburg's Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the main hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelin's discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; and the Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, which netted over one hundred million dollars.

Black Powder and Hand Steel describes the miners and the machinery they used. Otis E. Young, Jr., gives an account of the miners, particularly the Cornish and Irish, their origins, character, social life, pleasures, and, most important, their labors. The miner's lot depended on the tools he used, and the author traces the evolution of the miner's most important tools: from hoisting bucket to mine elevator, cold mining to dynamite, ore car to skip, hemp to wire rope, and slow match to Bickford fuse.

Young reveals the difficulties of prospecting and mining two of the West's most valuable ores, gold and silver, and gives readers a firsthand look at the challenges of working even the most successful strikes. A companion volume to Young's Western Mining, Black Powder and Hand Steel is written in the same lively style--informative and entertaining for general readers and scholars. It is also well illustrated, with drawings by Buck O'Donnell.

Author: Otis E. Young
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 03/01/2016
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780806153971

About the Author
Young, Otis E.: -

Otis E. Young, Jr., a native of Indiana, received the Ph.D. degree from Indiana University. He is Professor Emeritus of History in Arizona State University, Tempe. In addition to BlackPowder and Hand Steel and Western Mining, he is the author of several other books and articles on western history.

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