| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West. By Robert A. Trennert. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2001. viii + 140 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

The story of transportation in the mining frontier has been incomplete until now. Mining histories have generally neglected the topic of aerial tramways. Expanding on a 1997 article in the Mining History Journal (vol. 4, 1997), Robert Trennert provides an insightful overview of western aerial mine tramway history in his new book. . . .

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