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Limbaugh, Ronald Hadley was born on January 22, 1938 in Emmett, Idaho, United States. Son of John Hadley and Evelyn E. (Mortimore) Limbaugh.
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Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the "Southern Mines" - those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra - were also of importance in the development of California's mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras's economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region. Calaveras Gold is based on extensive research in manuscript collections, oral histories, and rare imprints, and includes numerous period photographs and other illustrations.
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Limbaugh, Ronald Hadley was born on January 22, 1938 in Emmett, Idaho, United States. Son of John Hadley and Evelyn E. (Mortimore) Limbaugh.
Bachelor, College Idaho, Caldwell, 1960. Master of Arts, University Idaho, Moscow, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University Idaho, Moscow, 1967.
History library, Idaho State History Society, Boise, 1963-1966;
instructor, Boise College, 1964-1966;
assistant professor of history, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1966-1971;
archivist, curator, University of the Pacific, Stockton, 1968-1987;
professor of history, University of the Pacific, Stockton, since 1977;
Rockwell Hunt chair of California history, University of the Pacific, Stockton, since 1989;
director, Holt-Atherton Center, University of the Pacific, Stockton, 1984-1987. Executive director Conference of California History Socs., Stockton, 1973-1976, 77-78, 82-86, 90-97. Director John Muir Center for Regional Studies, University of Pacific, Stockton, since 1989.
Consultant, evaluator National Endowment for Humanities, 1983-1986.
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With United States Army, 1955-1956. Member American Association of University Professors, Western History Association, Organisation American Historians, Phi Kappa Phi(president Universal Oil Products chapter 1988), Mining History Association.
Married Marilyn Kay Rice, June 16, 1963. 1 child, Sally Annual.