Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,37 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 : 392 pages
File Size : 28,72 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 : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,64 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 : Robert L. Brown
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,3 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 : William W. Whitfield
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ghost towns
ISBN : 9781931291385
Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781894974721
Today, many of the historic coal-mining communities of the Rocky Mountains are uninhabited ghost towns. Yet behind the crumbled ruins are tales of perseverance, danger and romance. A devastating mine explosion on Halloween shatters the lives of mining families in Nordegg. The miners of Mountain Park build a hockey rink still celebrated in local lore. A young immigrant couple in Mercoal establishes a successful business only to have their love story sadly cut short. These 11 dramatic and poignant ghost-town tales are sure to fascinate all who love pioneer history.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 1987-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780831739010
Author : Staci Comden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738599530
Images from the archives of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
Author : Nicholas Trotter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0471748552
Want to roam incredible National Parks or luxuriate at a posh resort? Ride the rails or ride the range? Explore quaint small towns or booming big cities? Ski the slopes or browse in the shops? Whether you want urbane luxury, back-country adventure, or something in-between, you’ll find it between the pages of this friendly guide that gives you the scoop on: Rock climbing, whitewater rafting, trout fishing, mountain biking, skiing, and golfing The Natural Wonders and wide range of environments The breweries and their signature brews Local delicacies such as buffalo, rattlesnake, and Rocky Mountain oysters 3 great itinerary options Like every For Dummies travel guide, Colorado & the Rockies For Dummies includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss—and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages
Author :
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,10 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.
