Environmental occurrence and impacts of arsenic at gold mining sites in the western United States

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 181-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Straskraba ◽  
Robert E. Moran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Mining Sites

Papers of Frederick R. Burnham (1861-1947) in the Hoover Institution Archives

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 385-387
Author(s):  
Alistair Tough
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Business Manager ◽  
Mining Engineer ◽  
Northern Territories

Indian fighter, explorer, scout, soldier and hero: during Frederick Burnham's life he filled all of these roles. Consequently a myth grew up around him cultivated by various “real-life adventure story books” in which he featured, and his own autobiography in which he stressed the more adventurous aspects of his life. The adventurous aspects of his career are, indeed, not without significance. For example, it was Burnham who killed the Mlimo during the Ndebele War of 1897 and this action may well have had an important effect on the morale of Ndebele fighters. Nevertheless, Burnham's career as a mineral prospector, mining engineer, and business manager is as significant as his more publicized activities. In some instances the latter were, in fact, a consequence of his employment in the former.Born in the United States, Burnham was brought up in California. He received a limited formal education but in the course of his early working life in the western United States he acquired a knowledge of mining, particularly gold mining. From 1893 to 1897 he was in present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia. It was he who led the Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co. expedition which established for the outside world that major copper deposits existed in Central Africa.

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

Characterizing fire behavior from laboratory burns of multi-aged, mixed-conifer masticated fuels in the western United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Ann Heinsch ◽  
Pamela G. Sikkink ◽  
Helen Y. Smith ◽  
Molly L. Retzlaff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Mixed Conifer

Women's Studies in the Western United States

NWSA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Karen L. Salley ◽  
Barbara Scott Winkler ◽  
Megan Celeen ◽  
Heidi Meck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Women’S Studies
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