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What to read after Hydraulic and Placer Mining by Eugene B. Wilson: 24 titles sharing themes of Mining and Technology & Engineering, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Hydraulic and Placer Mining.

Death Valley and the Amargosa A Land of Illusion — Richard E. Lingenfelter

Death Valley and the Amargosa A Land of Illusion

Richard E. Lingenfelter

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

A Girl Called Max My Life Story — Sheila Buncie

A Girl Called Max My Life Story

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Rocks and Minerals of Washington and Oregon A Field Guide to the Evergreen and Beaver States — Dan R. Lynch

Rocks and Minerals of Washington and Oregon A Field Guide to the Evergreen and Beaver States

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

In Miners’ Mirage-Land — Idah Meacham Strobridge

In Miners’ Mirage-Land

Idah Meacham Strobridge

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

A Sketch of the Geology of Cornwall — Brenton Symons

A Sketch of the Geology of Cornwall

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Holding the Line Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 — Barbara Kingsolver

Holding the Line Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983

Barbara Kingsolver

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Yorkshire People and Coal — Peter Tuffrey

Yorkshire People and Coal — Peter Tuffrey

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Call of the Wild Wolf, and Lost and Found Mines — Richard Pickens Cobb

Call of the Wild Wolf, and Lost and Found Mines

Richard Pickens Cobb

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Thunder on the Mountain Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal — Peter A. Galuszka

Thunder on the Mountain Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal

Peter A. Galuszka

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Poor Man’s Fortune White Working-class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950 — Jarod Roll

Poor Man’s Fortune White Working-class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Rock Slope Stability — Charles A. Kliche

Rock Slope Stability

Charles A. Kliche

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Diamonds, Gold, and War The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa — Martin Meredith

Diamonds, Gold, and War The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

Martin Meredith

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Gold Hunting In Alaska (1901) — Joseph Grinnell

Gold Hunting In Alaska (1901)

Joseph Grinnell

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

The Chemistry and Metallurgy of Copper — Aaron Snowden Piggot

The Chemistry and Metallurgy of Copper

Aaron Snowden Piggot

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Roaring Camp The Social World of the California Gold Rush — Susan Lee Johnson

Roaring Camp The Social World of the California Gold Rush

Susan Lee Johnson

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Klondike The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 — Pierre Berton

Klondike The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Fossicking and Prospecting for Gold Mines Department New Zealand 1933 — New Zealand. Mines Dept

Fossicking and Prospecting for Gold Mines Department New Zealand 1933 — New Zealand. Mines Dept

New Zealand Mines Dept

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Ord Mountain District, San Bernardino County, California; No.77 — F. Harold Weber

Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Ord Mountain District, San Bernardino County, California; No.77

F. Harold Weber

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Technological Analysis on Quartzite Exploitation — International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

Technological Analysis on Quartzite Exploitation

International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

A Preliminary Report On a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia — William Smith Yeates

A Preliminary Report On a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia

William Smith Yeates

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

The Divine Comedy; Or the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri — Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy; Or the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Historic Photos of Colorado Mining — Ed Raines

Historic Photos of Colorado Mining

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

Mining America The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980 — Duane A. Smith

Mining America The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

A Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, Or, a New Art of Distilling, Divided Into Five Parts Whereunto Is Added a Description of the Tincture of Gold, Or the True Aurum Potabile: Also the First Part of the Mineral Work: Set Forth and Published… — Johann Rudolf 1604-1670 Glauber

A Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, Or, a New Art of Distilling, Divided Into Five Parts Whereunto Is Added a Description of the Tincture of Gold, Or the True Aurum Potabile: Also the First Part of the Mineral Work: Set Forth and Published&#8230

Johann Rudolf 1604-1670 Glauber

Themes: Mining • Technology & Engineering

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Mining, Technology & Engineering — the same threads that run through Hydraulic and Placer Mining by Eugene B. Wilson. Among the authors featured: Richard E. Lingenfelter, Sheila Buncie, Dan R. Lynch, Idah Meacham Strobridge, and others.

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