Gray Gold : Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mark Chambers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lead mines and mining--Environmental aspects.

Lead mines and mining.

Indians of North America.

Cultural landscapes.

Cultural landscapes--Middle West.

Indians of North America--Middle West.

Lead mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Middle West.

Lead mines and mining--Middle West--History.

Middle West.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3) 2023

Summary:

"This book explores Native American and Euro-American lead mining in the Midwest. As Europeans flooded North America and moved westward, their own mining practices were greatly informed by Native American mining methods already in place. And while many researchers have explored gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting, lead has not received much scholarly attention, despite a long history of Native American and European desire for the ore. Chambers reflects on how early mining techniques affected the culture clash between Native Americans and European colonists, all the while tracking the impact increased mining had on the environment of what would become the states of Illinois and Missouri"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lead Ore and Surveying le Pays des Illinois

Early Mining and Smelting in North America

Tracing Eighty Years of Early Mining Associations

Early Mineralogical Assessments and Emerging Science

Unhealthy Spaces Fitted Up with Furnaces.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stony Brook University, 2012, under the title: River of gray gold : cultural and material changes in the land of ores, country of minerals, 1719-1839.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621906995

162190699X

OCLC:

1266196305