Copper for America
Subtitle: the United States copper industry from colonial times to the 1990s
By: Charles K. Hyde.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Copper mines and mining -- United States -- History.; Copper industry and trade -- United States -- History.
Description: This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas - the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska - from colonial times to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations; title: Michigan copper through the Civil War; title: Michigan copper in prosperity and decline; title: The richest hill on earth; title: The emergence of Arizona; title: Arizona and the rest of the West; title: From the 1920s to the Vietnam War; title: Adjustment and decline.