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Publisher: Historic Photos
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781620453827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pictorial introduction to the mining history of Colorado offers captioned photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1618583875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Duane A. Smith
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1457109883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780806120843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDepicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author: Caroline Arlen
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781890437749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Kevin Singel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-05-26
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781719553469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel 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: Stephen M. Voynick
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780878423545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh atop the Continental Divide, the Climax Mine opened during World War I to meet military needs for molybdenum, a metallic element that enhances the toughness and durability of steel. Climax became the most successful American company of the Great Depr
Author: Duane A. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated 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: Frank Waters
Publisher: Swallow Press
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780804005913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reprint makes available again Frank Waters' dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pike's Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional history, Midas of the Rockies is a story so fabulously impossible and yet so painfully true that it commends itself to the whole of America, the only earth, the only people who could have created it.
