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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good perspective from grassroots to government levels.,
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This review is from: The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining (Hardcover)
Must admit that, as a mining engineer with 30 years experience, I was pleasantly surprised at the breadth of the book. Despite the nature of some of the topics addressed, it was not "dry" in tone. The author provides a good flavor of the grassroots level mining activity of individuals of the period. Moreover he gave some unique insights of Depression-era government policy as it affected the larger mining industry, especially silver and gold. President Roosevelt's explicit desire to maintain the status quo with the federal mining law (to enhance mining employment) was one example. Another example was the historical review of hydraulic mining in California--both contemporaneously to the Depression as well as the 19th century. |
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The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining by Charles Wallace Miller (Hardcover - January 1, 1995)
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