Author : Caroline Arlen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781890437749
A collection of interviews with Colorado miners, mostly hardrock miners, working in the San Juan Mountains mining gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper. Includes a glossary of mining terminology.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1618583875
In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip. An additional 25,000 soon gave up and went back home. The remainder not only brought statehood to the central Rocky Mountains, but they also brought the industrial world to isolated areas in the high mountains, where they mined mineral deposits for gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper, among others. This book, Historic Photos of Colorado Mining, provides an introduction to Colorado's mining history through photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Accompanying captions provide specific contexts for the photos and tell the story of the prospectors, miners, engineers, teamsters, railroaders, and townspeople who served as entrepreneurs and workers in industrializing the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Many ruins from the mining days are now recognized as historic landmarks. But the stories behind the ruins are often as fascinating as the ruins themselves—the struggle to survive and thrive in the wilderness is always a compelling tale.
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,10 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 : Duane A. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Illustrated with many black and white historic photographs of mines and mining towns in Colorado, this book traces the industry from its development in 1859 to the late 1970s.
Author : Duane A. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1457109883
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever, affecting settlement, territorial status, statehood, publicity, development, investment, economy, jobs both in and outside the industry, transportation, tourism, advances in mining and smelting technology, and urbanization. Moreover, the first generation of Colorado mining brought a fascinating collection of people and a new era to the region. Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush. Smith's narrative will appeal to anybody with an interest in the state's fascinating mining history over the past 150 years.
Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 35,50 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 : Sherie Schmauder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 9781890437800
Vividly portrays the daily lives of several women and how they battled extreme weather conditions, isolation that could drive a person mad, disease that often took their children from them, poverty and starvation, and primitive living conditions. All the stories are fictional, but all are based on women's actual experiences. The West could not have progressed and prospered without the strength, courage, and determination of such women.
Author : Staci Comden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738599530
Images from the archives of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
Author : Dave Southworth
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781890778163
Part of our heritage lies with the hardy people of the rugged gold and silver era, the mines where they worked and the towns where they lived. Colorado Mining Camps presents 207 communities which were significant in the Colorado mining boom. There were colorful characters of all kinds --- heroes and heroines, con artists and gamblers, itinerate preachers and dance hall girls, tin stars and gunslingers, millionaires and paupers, thieves and fools, braggarts and optimists. This is their story, and these are their towns.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780966565454
Buildings in the Town of Superior, Colorado, that have been torn down or moved since the town's industrial coal mine closed in 1945.
