Description
However the deposits were shallow, scattered, and short-lived, and by the 1950s few companies and fewer individuals remained to work what was once left. Ghost towns dotted the landscape where once there had been frenzied activity, and the larger towns and cities turned to other business and industry. Yet the original heritage of the district remains—including the values and traditions of the pioneer miners.
Wilderness Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma draws on all kinds of source materials, including personal interviews with former miners, to offer the primary full account of the Tri-State District’s mining history. It describes the geology of the region and the changing methods of prospecting, mining, milling, and smelting, at the side of evolving labor relations and social and financial conditions. The numerous illustrations, including some never before reproduced, show the mines, the men, and the equipment they used.