The mechanics of optimism
Subtitle: mining companies, technology, and the Hot Spring gold rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
By: Jeffrey J. Safford.
Series: Mining the American West
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Montana -- Madison County -- History -- 19th century.; Madison County (Mont.) -- Gold discoveries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Patterns of discovery, 1863-1864; title: Mills to Montana, 1865, I : the Ragland, Cope, and Napton Mining Company of Boonville, Missouri, and the New York and Montana Mining and Discover Company of New York City, New York; title: Mills to Montana, 1865, II : the Clark and Upson, and the Nelson Mining companies of Hartford, Connecticut; title: Further development of the district, 1866 : the Herschel Mining Company of Virginia City, Montana, the Golden Ore Mining & Prospecting Company of Montana (Brooklyn, New York), and Hall and Spaulding of Meadow Creek, Montana; title: Expansion of the district and new investors, 1866 : the Midas Mining Company of Rochester, New York; title: The Midas Mining Company, 1867; title: Increased competition and doubt, 1867 : the McAndrew and Wann Mining Company of New York City, New York; title: The mood in the district, autumn 1867; title: Decline of the district, 1868.