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Malone, Michael P. The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.

Study of the Anaconda Company’s consolidation of power in Butte, Montana and the transition from individual to corporate mining at the turn of the twentieth century.

Byrkit, James W. Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona’s Labor-Management War of 1901-1921. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982.

An example of the increase in labor activism that served as one response of labor to the shift towards corporate capitalism.

MacMillan, Donald.  Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1980-1924.  Helene: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000.

A study, originally written in 1973, of the issue of air pollution in industrial and corporate mining in Montana.

Finn, Janet L.  Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

A comparative study of Anaconda Copper Mining Company's copper mining and mining communities in Montana and Chile. 

Robbins, William G.  Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1986.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.

Study of timber industry and workers in Oregon.

Stoll, Steven.  The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

A history of the growth of agribusiness in California.

Vogeler, Ingolf.  The Myth of the Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance of US Agriculture.  Boulder, Westview Press, 1981..

A study of contemporary agribusiness with emphasis on nineteenth century farming patterns, federal policy and the transition to twentieth century practices.

McGregor,Alexander Campbell.  Counting Sheep: From Open Range to Agribusiness on the Columbian Plateau. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.

Chronicles the lives of three generations of a sheep herding family that came to Oregon in the late-nineteenth century to graze the public domain and adapted to the changing economic trends to become a large twentieth century corporation.

Robbins, William G.  Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Essays that provide an overview of the history of capitalism in several western industries and locations.

Natural Timber Country. By Ron Finne. 53m. 1973. Videorecording.

Tells the story of the logging industry in Oregon, with emphasis on older logging techniques by combining old films and photographs with reminiscences of old loggers as voice-over. Available in Knight Library.

Camp 6 Logging Museum

A museum dedicated to the history of the "steam logging era," 1880-1940.Located in Tacoma, WA, in Point Defiance State Park. See their web page at www.camp-6-museum.org

Kam Wah Chung and Co. Museum

Small museum dedicated to chronicling the Asian American presence during the Eastern Oregon gold rush and the subsequent mining communities of the latter nineteenth century. Located in John Day, Oregon.

Bohemia Mining District.

Located app. 30 miles east of Cottage Grove in the Cascade foothills, gold and silver were discovered in this area around 1900. There are many hikes and drives in this area that follow old mining routes and haul roads and which visit old mine shafts and buildings. Contact Cottage Grove Chamber of Commerce (710 Row River Rd, 942-2411) or Cottage Grove Ranger District (78405 Cedar Park Road, 942-5591) for more information.

Bisbee Deportation of 1917

Page describing an event in which a labor dispute in the copper industry led to the abandonment of 11,000 miners in the New Mexico desert, with photos and text. http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/

Paul Bunyan Camp

The home page of a logging history museum located in the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, that provides photos and historical background relevant to late nineteenth century logging enterprises. www.paulbunyancamp.org

Bourne, Jonathan, 1855-1940.

Consists of Bourne's mining and business papers, 1887-1927.  Bourne was a successful lawyer, mining investor, and Republican politician from Portland, Oregon.  This collection contains journals, ledgers, minutes, and stock book from several mining companies in Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, and California.  A separate collection contains Bourne's political and personal correspondence.  In Special Collections.

Marsh, Floyd R. 20 Years a Soldier of Fortune. Portland, Or.: Binford & Mort, 1976.

A autobiography of an Alaskan gold miner in the early part of the century.  In Oregon Collection, Knight Library Special Collections.

Oregon American Lumber Co., Vernonia, Ore., 1926-1952.

Extensive records of lumber company that utilized railroad logging.  Consists of office correspondence and reports, including cash statements, minutes of meetings, labor relations, timber purchases and sales, and inventories.  Includes correspondence of company president Judd Greenman.  In Special Collections.