Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Author: Sandra Dallas

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780806120843

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Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom

Colorado Ghost Towns
Colorado Ghost Towns

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1972-07

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780870045301

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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.

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Author: Kevin Singel

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-26

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781719553469

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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.

Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies
Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780870043420

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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.

Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns
Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns

Author: Robert L. Brown

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780870040214

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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.

Timberline Tailings
Timberline Tailings

Author: Muriel Sibell Wolle

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780804009638

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'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.