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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It began with the Ojibway mining copper on the shores of Lake Superior where the value of implements and adornments established the value and attraction of the metal. It continued with the Massacoe of Connecticut on whose lands greenish tinged rocks invited the natives to try their hand at extraction and refinement. Fast forward to the early 1700's when Simsbury copper was rediscovered by the European resettlers who had begun to claim Connecticut land there as their own. Colonials multiplied like cockroaches displacing the Tunxis, Poquonocks, Podunks, and Sicoags while enslaved Native Americans and African blacks, imported through the Triangle Trade route, worked both the fields and the mines. When pickaxes proved insufficient extraction processes were adopted from England, which increased both yields and deaths. A solution was invented in Tuckingmill by a former currier named William Bickford whose safety fuse took the local mining industry by storm. By 1836 Richard Bacon of Simsbury had partnered with the English firm of Bickford, Smith, and Davey to manufacture their patented product in Connecticut. But the maverick Bacon soon split with his overseas associates, and each became rivals in their industry, soon joined by other local entrepreneurs as well. Follow the explosive relationships and events that took place on both coasts as the slowly maturing mining industry made magnates, paupers, victims, and examples of both the lucky and unfortunate. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It began with the Ojibway mining copper on the shores of Lake Superior where the value of implements and adornments established the value and attraction of the metal. It continued with the Massacoe of Connecticut on whose lands greenish tinged rocks invited the natives to try their hand at extraction and refinement. Fast forward to the early 1700's when Simsbury copper was rediscovered by the European resettlers who had begun to claim Connecticut land there as their own. Colonials multiplied like cockroaches displacing the Tunxis, Poquonocks, Podunks, and Sicoags while enslaved Native Americans and African blacks, imported through the Triangle Trade route, worked both the fields and the mines. When pickaxes proved insufficient extraction processes were adopted from England, which increased both yields and deaths. A solution was invented in Tuckingmill by a former currier named William Bickford whose safety fuse took the local mining industry by storm. By 1836 Richard Bacon of Simsbury had partnered with the English firm of Bickford, Smith, and Davey to manufacture their patented product in Connecticut. But the maverick Bacon soon split with his overseas associates, and each became rivals in their industry, soon joined by other local entrepreneurs as well. Follow the explosive relationships and events that took place on both coasts as the slowly maturing mining industry made magnates, paupers, victims, and examples of both the lucky and unfortunate. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Enter a world where honest work makes fatherless families, business agreements become tools of corruption, toxic plagues devastate cities, indigenous policies create profitable opportunities, partnerships devolve into rivalries, racism influences company payrolls, humans become expendable chaff, and haves and have-nots are defined by the type of risks they are willing to take to survive or thrive. Experience life in Savannah, New York City, Brooklyn, Faversham, Peace Dale, Narragansett, Southwick, Enfield, and Hazardville; where gunpowder either makes you a whole man or leaves just enough of you behind to fill a bucket. The story of the rise and fall of the Hazard Powder Company, one of the largest gunpowder manufacturing facilities in the country in the 1800s, is told in detail from its inception to its death in a violent explosion, crisping employees and nearly destroying the nearby town of Hazardville. Meet the Loomis Brothers, Neeland, Parkes, and Allen, tobacconists from Suffield, Connecticut, who, along with Allen Andrews Denslow, a businessman from New Haven, as they purchase nearly 500 acres of woodland bordering the Scantic River and build a small gunpowder mill. Meet Augustus George Hazard, of the Rhode island Haszard's, as he reclaims the glory and social standing his father and grandfather had let slip from their branch of the family by purchasing the mill site and expanding it to rival that of the Duponts of Delaware. Meet Robert Stuart Waddell, star witness for the government and disgruntled employee, as he almost singlehandedly dismantles the Dupont Empire. Meet the Prickett's, emigres from England, who successfully steer the powdermill through each crisis up until the final concussive explosion. And finally, consider the employees as each meets their maker in explosion after explosion, with most being buried in nearly empty coffins. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…