Author : Kathryn Koutsky Cohen
Publisher : Wizard Works
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : 9780943712222
A history of the Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass, once the site of the most productive hard-rock gold mine in Southcentral Alaska.
Author : Sarah A. Isto
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Good Company is a vivid and compelling story of life in early twentieth-century Alaska. From the lean years of the Depression through World War II and Vietnam, Sarah Isto's family made a home in "company housing" in the small mining town of Fairbanks. With a wry sense of humor and an eye for detail, Isto tells of the courtship and marriage of her parents and her own Fairbanks childhood, weaving rich descriptions of daily life and northern living into her story. With grace and perception, Good Company celebrates the joys and challenges of family life on the Alaska frontier.
Author : Sheila Kelly
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1602231028
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold mining’s past.
Author : Leland Carlson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1620327716
An Alaskan Gold Mine: The Story of No. 9 Above is a notable and tragic story of the discovery of Alaska gold in 1898. The mine had so many implications for leaders and institutions of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a tangled and contested case of ownership extending over two decades that went to the Supreme Court of the United States on four occasions. Visiting Alaska three times doing meticulous research into legal proceedings and conducting oral interviews, Carlson succeeded in crafting a compelling narrative of gold, grief, and greed. An Alaskan Gold Mine: The Story of No. 9 Above remains a classic case study of the Alaska gold rush as a whole, as well as the particular context of issues and personalities unique to the bonanza claim staked by a Covenant missionary on Anvil Creek above the boomtown Nome.
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Page : 1996 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Mines and mineral resources
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Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Horace Jared Stevens
Publisher :
Page : 2686 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Mineral industries
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Author : Maria Reeves
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Gold dredging
ISBN : 9780578011592
Gold Dredge No. 8 is one of the most significant relics of mining history in Alaska. Currently located at her final resting place, just north of Fairbanks, dredge No. 8 was dubbed the "Queen of the Fleet" during her years of operation in the Goldstream Valley. Gold Dredge No. 8 is the only landmark of its kind that is open to the public. Every summer, she provides a wonderful experience to thousands of visitors who come to Fairbanks looking for adventure and the chance to experience firsthand the history for which Fairbanks's mining pioneers are renowned. Author Maria Reeves explores the history of Gold Dredge No. 8 as well as visionary men, lie Norman C. Stines and James M. Davidson, who made dredging in the Fairbanks district not only a reality, but also provided enough economic stability to bring the struggling town of Fairbanks back to life. Gold Dredge No. 8 was a placer mine that drew water from another local engineering landmark, the Davidson Ditch. In this book, you'll learn about the crew that operated Gold Dredge No. 8 as well as the hardships these dredge men faced on a daily basis. You'll be able to take a photographic tour of Gold Dredge No. 8 as she is now, and learn about efforts to preserve Pleistocene fossil remains that were unearthed during the stripping process. You'll learn why the gold standard initially helped mining and find out why Gold Dredge No. 8 was shut down in 1959.
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher :
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1917
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