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  • Gambling on Ore

  • The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860-1910 (Mining the American West)
  • By: Kent Curtis
  • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
  • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Gambling on Ore

By: Kent Curtis
Narrated by: Chaz Allen
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Gambling on Ore examines the development of the Western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early 20th century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining West. Employing abundant new historical evidence in key primary and secondary sources, Curtis tells the story of the inescapable relationship of mining to nature in the modern world as the United States moved from a primarily agricultural society to a mining nation in the second half of the 19th century.

In Montana, legal issues and politics—such as unexpected consequences of federal mining law and the electrification of the United States—further complicated the mining industry’s already complex relationship to geology, while government policy, legal frameworks, dominant understandings of nature, and the exigencies of profit and production drove the industry in momentous and surprising directions. Despite its many uncertainties, mining became an important part of American culture and daily life.

Metal mining has had a profound influence on the human ecology and the social relationships of North America through the 20th century and throughout the world after World War II. Understanding how we forged these relationships is central to understanding the environmental history of the United States after 1850.

The book is published by University Press of Colorado. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"This is a very well-written, well-argued, and thought-provoking book.... Highly recommended." (Choice)

"I hope this deserving book is read widely." (The Magazine of Western History)

"Deserves the widest possible reading." (The Journal of American History)

©2013 Kent A. Curtis (P)2022 Redwood Audiobooks
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I have never stopped listening to a book before .

narrator needs to react to punctuation and not emphasize random words.
often read as run on sentences, and pauses at end of lines vs end of sentences
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