Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age
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Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry:...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0826351395
ISBN13:9780826351395
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:196 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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