Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 11,33 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 : James E. Sherman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806111063
Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,14 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 : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 29,6 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 : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 31,15 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 : Perry Eberhart
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 23,13 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 : John Kenneth Aldrich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Extinct cities
ISBN : 9781883425098
Author : Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 9780804009638
'Timberline Tailings' is made up of material--letters and interviews--of the hardy men and women who met the challenges of the gold and silver mining camps of Colorado with stamina, ingenuity, and a keen love of life.
Author :
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 076034082X
"A guide to the best ghost towns of California. Once thriving, these abandoned mining camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to explore these sites, including maps, directions, history, and photos"--Provided by publisher.
