Awards
- Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (H. Bryan Western History) 2012
Overview
The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans successively mined copper for 200 years at Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 with the Spanish discovery of native copper, the Chino Mines followed industry developments first as a network of underground mines and ultimately as part of the multinational Kennecott Copper Corporation's international open-pit mining operations -- operations that would overtake Santa Rita, the town that grew up around them, by 1970. Huggard and Humble detail the story of these developments, with in-depth explanations of mining technology, and describe the effects on and consequences for the workers, the community, and the natural environment. Evolving from mining-military camp to presidio, to company town, and eventually to independent community, Santa Rita developed rich family, educational, religious, social, and labour traditions before its demise. Extensive archival photographs, many taken by officials of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, accompany the text, providing an important visual and historical record of a town swallowed up by the industry that created it. The book is for students, scholars, and laypersons interested in mining history, mining technology, Western history, Chicano studies, regional history of the Southwest, labour history, or environmental studies.
Full Product Details
Author: Christopher J. Huggard ,
Terrence M. Humble
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Imprint: University Press of Colorado
Dimensions:
Width: 22.50cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 28.60cm
Weight: 1.046kg
ISBN: 9781607321521
ISBN 10: 1607321521
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 06 January 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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Adult education
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General
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
.. .Thorough, meticulously researched, well-balanced by subject matter, and artfully presented in a way that documents the complex linkages between geology, mining, labor, ethnicity, social life, management culture, and government policy at Santa Rita... This study is a tour-de-force and destined to be a classic. --Keith R. Long, Mining History Journal
More than a simple mining and industrial chronicle . . . this is an excellent story of the people and their community. Duane A. Smith, Fort Lewis College, New Mexico Historical Review
. ..Thorough, meticulously researched, well-balanced by subject matter, and artfully presented in a way that documents the complex linkages between geology, mining, labor, ethnicity, social life, management culture, and government policy at Santa Rita... This study is a tour-de-force and destined to be a classic. --Keith R. Long, Mining History Journal
More than a simple mining and industrial chronicle . . . this is an excellent story of the people and their community. --Duane A. Smith, Fort Lewis College, New Mexico Historical Review
Author Information
Christopher J. Huggard is a professor of history at NorthWest Arkansas Community College and has published extensively on the history of mining and the environment in the American West. Terrence M. Humble was born in Santa Rita and retired from Chino Mines as a diesel mechanic and foreman in 2001. He has been recording histories, saving documents, and participating in local preservation of Santa Rita since 1967, publishing several journal articles on his hometown's history.
