Mining California: An Ecological History
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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between
1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California.
With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure
water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to
trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three
times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal
entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury
every mile--rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded,
the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of
foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and
grasslands.Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a
historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight--When we try to
pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else
in the universe--to the telling of the history of the American
West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at
its finest.
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