Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806120843
Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1972-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870045301
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This is the third in Robert Brown's series of picturesque guidebooks to another era. In text and photographs he has captured the sense of the historic as well as the nostalgic of a new selection of ghost towns and mining camps that dot the back country byways and high mountain valleys of Colorado.
Author : Peter Bronski
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0899975186
In its heyday, Colorado had more than 175 ski areas operating on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and while many of those resorts have shut down, their runs still shelter secret stashes of snow. Pristine slopes await backcountry powder hounds out to discover these chutes and steeps, bunny hills and bumps. Chronicling the history of more than 36 of these "lost resorts," Powder Ghost Towns provides the beta for how to ski and board these classic runs today, with comprehensive information on trailheads, where to skin up, and the best descents. Coverage ranges from southern Wyoming's Medicine Bow Mountains to the Colorado-New Mexico border, including famous old resorts like Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870043420
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. There is an informal history of each town, along with early and contemporary photographs to aid in site identification.
Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2018-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781719553469
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Author : Lorraine S. Bonebrake
Publisher : Westcliffe Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 9781565792876
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870040214
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Settle into your four-wheel-drive vehicle or a chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history of fifty-nine towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800s, with directions on how to get to each.
Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1467135127
Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.
Author : Jeff D. Eberle
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781634991919
Series statement from publisher's website.
Author : Charles a. Harbert
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937851262
While Creede, Colorado, had the reputation as a wide-open mining town in the early 1890s ("there is no night in Creede"), Creede's miners went two miles up the hill to nearby Bachelor to drink, gamble and enjoy the ladies of the night. Riches made at nearby silver mines during the day were lost in a night at one of the Bachelor's numerous saloons, gambling halls, and brothels. Among its 1,500 residents, nearly 200 prostitutes plied their trade nightly "Poker Alice" Tubbs, the notorious female gambler who dealt faro and played poker, said that Bachelor "ran ceaselessly at a most turbulent pitch. Ed O'Kelley--a Bachelor founder and its town marshal--murdered Bob Ford, the "dirty little coward" who had assassinated Jesse James just ten years earlier. World heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, lived in Bachelor as a child and probably began to learn his pugilistic skills here. Murders, violence, accidents and destructive fires were commonplace. One man killed his mining partner because he was getting too friendly with his daughters; another killed a man following a dispute over a "turkey shoot." Amid this turmoil, town residents also found time to go to the Bachelor Opera House, attend church, enjoy July 4th celebrations, or simply enjoy a walk in the spectacular scenery. Young children explored the hills and local mines in search of adventure--and found it. Read this exciting story of a ghost town whose candle burned brightly for a short period of twenty years only to return to its natural state as a high mountain meadow.
