Miner

several signings in the Treaty, which was the Ft. Laramie of 1868. Immigrants, miners, wagon train and U. S. troops began to enter the main resources for the buffalo hunt, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribe area. In 1866 Red Cloud refused to sign the non-aggression treaty in Fort Laramie, and the area was declared a war on all inputs other than India. He and his band of Oglala Sioux were a number of attacks on American settlers and miners have traveled to Oregon and Bozeman way. Captain William Fetter…

Montana was found in the 1850s. But, there wasn’t a rush of miners into Montana until the strikes that happened in Bannack City. The first gold stampede that had affected the upper Flathead, was diggings in British Columbia, which happened in 1864.From the other years, back then, two men brought nuggets and gold dust, what had became known as Finlay Creek. Into the next year, many prospectors and a great paying mind had sprang up. Most of the miners came from the U.S , and coming in from the…

didn’t really have value on its own. Many people, mostly men, died for looking for gold. These men were called gold miners and they’d travel by land or by sea. There was a total of two billion worth of gold that was taken from California in 1852. A man named James William Marshall, he was a carpenter from New Jersey, and he found little amounts of gold in the American river. The miners removed 750,000 pounds of gold during the gold rush. Marshall and another man with the last name Sutter…

the ideology so vehemently denounce it. Orwell succeeds in presenting an account of the poverty, poor conditions, and delusion experienced by the working class following the Great War. The story of The Road to Wigan Pier is that of the British coal-miners around Yorkshire and Lancashire. Initially he tells of a family called…

The time after the Civil War during America's expansion to the west was a time of great change and opportunity. But it was also difficult, challenging, and painful for many who came to seek a new life or opportunity. Through rebellion, secession, war, and expansion, the citizens of this new and still growing nation began to acknowledge the plights and unfairness to segregated groups. A war had been fought over the plight of one group of oppressed people. But change comes slowly, and other non…

predominant American way. It is so dumbfounding when questioning a practice or belief is met with anger and disapproval, as if whatever is the subject is supposed to be accepted without questions. In the article Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, by Horace Miner, American culture is satirized due to the way some practices and beliefs are so deeply indoctrinated into us that the American people fail to see how strange all of them really are. In “1848: When America Came of Age”, by Kurt Andersen,…

made the industrial innovations, like the fabrication of steel and iron, of the 1800s possible. In the early days of its mining, 1840, only 7,000 men were mining coal in America, but by 1870 the number of miners increased to 186,000. This increase was only the beginning. In 1900 the number of miners had surged to as many as 677,000. With the increase of workers came the increase of tons of coal that was being mined. The coal was used to power the technological innovations that steadily reshaped…

The U.S.’s need for coal to support its economic boom was similar to the U.S. government’s need for Sioux land in order to expand, and colliers residency in company towns that had significant control over miners’ lives is reminiscent of the Sioux’s’ lives on reservations. The solidarity that miners gained through their suffering and their representation of it through strikes and protests follow a similar pattern to the banding together of different Sioux tribes and the use…

century.To date there over 200 mining companies who have projects in mexico. Historically conditions in these mines were have been below the safety standards. In Most cases miners would enter a tunnel not knowing whether they would make it back out. Francisco Mora’s “Mine workers in pachuca” adequately portrays, the feelings of the miners at this time period. It made me me think about life and death more seriously and opened my mind to ideals like the value of a human life. Mora’s drawing…

caused by gas explosions and cave-ins. Whenever the miners are underground, they are always subject to noxious gases and coal dust. So when there is a gas leak all you need is a spark and the entire company will die. Cave-ins are caused by the unreliability of rock supporting the weight on the ground. So on any occasion where a miner goes underground, they are betting their lives on the rocks above their head. But the thing that kills the most miners is not freak accidents, but pneumoconiosis…