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Treasure from the Painted Hills: A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907: Contributions in Economics and Economic History

Autor Douglas Steeples
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 1999 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today as a silver-mining ghost town, Calico, CA outlived the silver era when borax was discovered in its hills. Supplying Borax worldwide-employing the twenty mule teams still associated with Twenty-Mule Team Borax-the Calico mines played a pivotal role in the evolution of the less glamorous industry, borax mining. Correcting the image sold to tourists, Steeples provides a tight geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of Calico, a once thriving community struggling to survive in primitive conditions. He tells the tale of three Calicos: the silver-mining town, the borax-mining center, and the ghost town, providing a masterful history of regional silver mining and national borax mining, processing, and marketing.The book provides an essential chapter in the development of western mining, the borax industry, and western mining camps. But it is more than the story of silver and borax in Calico. Steeples probes beyond the mines and mills in search of the community's soul, considering, for instance, the local paper, the Calico Print, the creation of the twenty-mule team image of Borax, the entrepreneurship of Francis Marion Borax Smith and his multinational organization, the education of the children, and the creation of the modern-day myth. Contrasting the working Calico with the illusory Calico, Steeples writes the complete history of the town from its natural setting to its imaginary legacy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313308369
ISBN-10: 0313308365
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions in Economics and Economic History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

DOUGLAS STEEPLES is Professor of History and Dean at Mercer University. His primary research interest is the American West and U.S. business history after the Civil War. His most recent book is Democracy in Desperation (Greenwood, 1998).

Cuprins

Foreword by David O. WhittenThis Remote SolitudeHorn SilverHugh Stevens' Beautiful White CrystalsCalico Finds Its Voice: The Calico PrintSaturday Night in Calico: Life in a Mining CampRemembering Calico: Historical MiragesBibliographyIndex