It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Mining Law of 1872 by Gordon Morris Bakken
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History has left us a classic image of western mining in the grizzly forty-niner squatting by a clear stream sifting through gravel to reveal gold. What this slice of Western Americana does not reveal, however, is thousands of miners doing the same, their gravel washing downstream, causing the water to grow dark with debris while trout choke to death and wash ashore. Instead of the havoc wreaked upon the western landscape, we are told stories of American enterprise, ingenuity, and fortune. The General Mining Act of 1872, which declared all valuable mineral deposits on public lands to be free...
The Mining Law of 1872 by Gordon Morris Bakken is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.
This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Mining Law of 1872 aloud.
The Mining Law of 1872 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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