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Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 (Mining the American West) by Andrew Scott Johnston is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<i>Mercury and the Making of California</i>, Andrew Johnston’s multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California’s mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West. <br> Gold and silver could not be refined without mercury; therefore, its production and use were vital to securing power and wealth in the West. The first industrialized mining in California, mercury mining had its own par
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- Author
- Andrew Scott Johnston
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781607322429
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Management, Engineering
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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