Miners in the gilded age - Duluth U.S. History
Miners in the gilded age
After the Civil War, the area west of the Mississippi River was settled by miners, ranchers, and farmers
Land use in 1860 Land use in 1880
Mining was the first industry Before the Civil War, to attract settlers to the miners discovered West after the Civil War gold in California, Colorado, Nevada After the Civil War, miners resumed their migration into the West to find more gold and silver
Some miners found huge discoveries of gold and silver
By 1880, miners at the Comstock Lode extracted $270 million in gold and
$400 million in silver
Silver miners in Leadville, CO
In the Gilded Age, mining corporations used expensive hydraulic mining techniques to
extract most of the gold and silver in the West
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