![]() Clark Spence’s The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold-dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897-1922 documents one of the little-known industrial frontiers in the Rocky Mountain region. Whether directly related to the extraction of minerals or tangentially affecting society and culture on the mining frontier, dramatic changes in technology characterized the industrial West at the turn of the century. Few industries produced technological innovation comparable to that of the western mining industry in 19th-century America. x+ 161 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Helena: Montana His torical Society Press, 1989 distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 609 The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold-dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897-1922. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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