Hydraulic Mining in California Lisa Lewis supervisor of instruction

supervisor of instruction

The book includes accounts from key curators and co-ordinators

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Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award

Hydraulic Mining in California Lisa Lewis supervisor of instructionHydraulic mining was, and remains, controversial. It produced great wealth from the soil of California, yet damaged the land in such a way that the scars will remain for eons. Great hillsides were denuded of soil by streams of water which boggle the imagination, and the sediment which was washed away filled the streambeds of the valleys below, causing flooding which decimated agriculture and inundated towns. This important new work, the first book