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Book Review
| Chasing the Glitter: Black Hills Milling, 1874–1959. By Richmond L. Clow. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2002. xii + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $59.95, cloth; $29.95, paper.)
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This is a book with an unusually long incubation. Written nearly twenty years ago, the manuscript has only now come to publication through the auspices of the South Dakota State Historical Society's Preservation Office. Thanks to support from new grant sources, the project directors in Pierre were finally able to launch their Historical Preservation Series, of which Chasing the Glitter is the second volume. Ninety-one black-and-white photos and line drawings accompany a well-written text, complete with endnotes. Readers of this volume will certainly be well-informed about the industrial and landscape history of how South Dakota ore was turned into gold. |
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The State Historical Society's interest was primarily in compiling a record of the physical structures used in processing gold-laden ore in the Black Hills region of the state. Yet even before Clow attempts to convey a sense of the changing architecture of the rural ore-processing industry, he instructs his readers on the geology of the region, and especially on the physical science of refining gold from rock. |
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