| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848–1880. By Rodman Wilson Paul. (Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 1963, rev. ed. University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xx + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $21.95, paper).

The University of New Mexico Press is to be congratulated for issuing this new edition of Rodman Paul's classic history, Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848–1880, and for expanding the book, with three new chapters written by Elliott West. As a detailed, yet comprehensive, overview of mining frontiers in the American West, Paul's work is still unsurpassed. It is one of the first sources a historian should consult when developing a context for understanding just about any aspect of nineteenth-century mining in the U. S. Paul emphasized the geographical expansion of the mining frontiers into new regions, the business and technological developments that fostered that expansion, and the effects those developments had on miners who had to make adjustments from the relatively independent world of the prospector to the rigidly organized world of industrial capital when a mining district happened to prosper. He also paid some attention to the nascent forms of government that evolved in mining districts in advance of the formal institutions of federal or state governments. . . .

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