Riding the High Wire
Aerial Mine Tramways in the West
Ranked #98 in Mining
This is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. Their inventions were followed by the more substantial double-rope systems imported from Europe. By the turn of the century, aerial tramways were common throughout western mining regions, hauling everything... more
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