{"product_id":"from-the-ground-up-a-history-of-mining-in-utah-9780874216394","title":"From the Ground Up: A History of Mining in Utah","description":"\u003cp\u003eMining had an enormous role  only partly measurable  in the history of Utah. Its multidimensional impact continues today. Economically  it made a major long-term contribution to the wealth  employment  and tax base of the state and stimulated a seemingly endless range of secondary businesses and enterprises. It helped shape the states social history  determining the location  distribution  and composition of many communities and bringing transportation systems and a wide variety of institutions to them. It developed cultural diversity by drawing miners and families from otherwise underrepresented ethnic and national backgrounds to Utah. It ignited strife  particularly between labor and management  but those issues often spread into or connected with other conflicts in and between communities  classes  and factions. It influenced political platforms  generated candidates  and helped decide elections. Throughout the state  mining dramatically transformed the landscape  most obviously at what has been called the worlds largest open-pit mine  which removed much of a mountain on the west side of Salt Lake Valley  but at innumerable other places too. Despite all mining has done and meant  there has not been  until now  a book that surveyed its history in Utah. From the Ground Up fills that gap in a collection of essays by leading experts  among them historians Thomas G. Alexander  Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans  James E. Fell Jr.  Laurence P. James  Brigham D. Madsen  Philip F. Notarianni  Allen Kent Powell  W. Paul Reeve  Raye C. Ringholz  and Janet Burton Seegmiller and geologists J. Wallace Gwynn and William T. Parry. The book is divided into three comprehensive parts. The first looks at \"The Ground of Utah Mining\": the geology that has produced extractable minerals  the economic history of the industry  \"father of Utah mining\" Patrick E. Connor  and the lore of mines and miners. Part II reviews the history of a handful of particularly significant mineral industries: salines  coal  uranium  and beryllium. The last part takes a region-by-region approach to survey the importantprimarily for hard-rock miningareas of the state  including places from Silver Reef to Alta  the East Tintic Range to the Uinta Basin  and Park City to Frisco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275209334837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0874216397","price":242.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780874216394.jpg?v=1780502989","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/from-the-ground-up-a-history-of-mining-in-utah-9780874216394","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}