Big Business in Alaska: The Kennecott Mines, 1898-1938
Graumann MW and University of Alaska Fairbanks - Anthropology and Historic Preservation Cooperative Park Studies Unit. 1976. Big Business in Alaska: The Kennecott Mines, 1898-1938. Occasional Papers. #1. National Park Service
The following study concentrates on the history and significance of the Kennecott area. Emphasis is placed on the development of the town rather than detailed discussions of the mines themselves. The appendices include a very brief history of McCarthy gleamed from the documents. A thorough oral history project should commence immediately to document that town's history while people are still alive to tell it. Since Lone Janson's The Copper Spike and the Alaska Division of Park's historic resource study of The Lower Copper and Chitina Rivers have compiled a history of the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, this study only superficially touches upon that subject.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Graumann, Melody; University of Alaska Fairbanks - Anthropology and Historic Preservation Cooperative Park Studies Unit
- Date of Issue
- 1976
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , WRST
- Keywords
- Alaska Syndicate, Ammonia Leaching Plant, Ballinger-Pinchot Affair, Concentrator Plant, Copper Slump 1919-1922, Cultural Resources, Declining Years 1923-1929, Depression 1930-1934, Discovery and Early Development, ehistory, Final Days, Flotation Plant, History, Kennecott Copper Corporation, McCarthy, Minerals, Mining, Recommendations