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Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The Road that Silver Built, runs north and south directly through the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado - some of the most beautiful and rugged country in all of North America, if not the world. However, there would be no road today if it were not for the treasure chest of minerals that early-day prospectors found, for all the gold and silver that was discovered was worth nothing if it could not be economically transported out of the mountains....
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"This work catalogs camps in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Entries include location, names of miners known to have worked the site, year of discovery, and ore value. The work is indexed by topic and mine, and offers a glossary and a copy of the Miners' Ten Commandments"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Eben Smith, little-known in Colorado mining history. A successful fortune seeker who traveled to California during the gold rush. Moved to Colorado in 1860 with business partner Jerome Chaffee and involved in nearly every major mining camp. He was eulogized as "dean of mining in Colorado"--
88) Man hunt
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Kenan Leach was mad clear through . . . Robbed by his partner, betrayed by his wife, he had no reason to stick around San Francisco any more. For a fact, there wasn't anything better he could do than set out to trail his old partner, Nate Morgan. There was money in it -- maybe -- and if Leach had anything to do with it, there'd be blood too. He didn't much care whose, either. . . . Kenan Leach was not a particularly vengeful man -- normally. But...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"The life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed. Tourism, skiing, and historic preservation replaced mineral extraction and contributed to Georgetown's survival, and ultimate flourishing, after the loss of its principal industry"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Special publication volume 24
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
The History of the Comstock Lode, first published in 1943, provided mining investors, engineers, and western historians with the first comprehensive, chronological history of mining operations on the Comstock. Of particular note is Smith's progressive record of the ways the mines were developed, the failures encountered, the bonanzas discovered, and the production records of the mines. In addition to the invaluable mining information, The History...
91) 6 family movies
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Legend of the Ruby Silver: A mother and son are hired to lend a hand at a mining site. When the mine doesn't produce as expected, dangers become more and more real.
Walking thunder: The coming-of-age saga of young Jacob McKay, who becomes stranded with his family in the Rocky Mountains, where they are befriended by human and animal inhabitants.
Long road home: Being left with nowhere else to go Seth moves to his grandparents farm in Utah. Seth grows...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"This is the multi-faceted story of Colorado's ordinary, but brave, men and women who experienced many joys and pains while isolated in Colorado's high country. It explains the significance of their work, which rose and fell with the mining economy in the West, especially in Colorado. It tells the story of the evolution of small-scale mining in nineteenth-century mining days, into the twentieth-century, with its urban, industrialized, large-scale...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As early as the eighteenth century, Spanish explorers left place-names, lost mines, and legends scattered throughout Colorado's San Juan Mountains. In the late 1800s the legends lured hopeful prospectors to the area, ushering in its greatest mining era and transforming it into one of the country's most celebrated mining districts.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"The life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed. Tourism, skiing, and historic preservation replaced mineral extraction and contributed to Georgetown's survival, and ultimate flourishing, after the loss of its principal industry"--Provided by publisher.
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