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Rocky Mountain Mining Camps - The Urban Frontier (Paperback)
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Rocky Mountain Mining Camps - The Urban Frontier (Paperback)
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Traditionally the American frontier was the home of the
self-sufficient individualist, a rural environment where settlers
lived without the comforts of society. But from the first gold rush
into the Rockies in 1859 until the 1890s, when most gold fields had
been played out, the unsettled wilderness of the Rocky Mountains
became the setting of a unique phenomenon-the Western mining camp.
To be profitable, miners needed a community of support-including
secure lines of transportation, farmers who could raise crops, and
merchants who could supply equipment. The lure of easy money also
attracted a drifting crowd of gamblers, prostitutes, and con men,
and a saloon and a brothel often were the first businesses to
appear in a prospering mining town. Unstable populations and a lack
of planning exacerbated the problems of the mining camps, including
lawlessness, destructive fires, and rough-and-ready vigilante
justice, but most maturing communities stabilized and quickly
established schools, churches, and libraries. In this absorbing
history of the Rocky Mountain mining towns, Duane A. Smith traces
their cycle of growth from birth to boom and either extinction or
transformation into permanent agricultural-mining communities, and
he recounts colorful histories of camps that sprang up overnight
and developed into urban settlements.
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