| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Timberline books |
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Timberline books.
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| Contents |
1. Pike's Peak or bust -- 2. 1859: The year dreams became reality -- 3. 1860-1864: To everything there is a season -- 4. 1864-1869: Good times a-comin, someday -- 5. 1870-1874: Bonanza! Three cheers and a tiger -- 6. 1875-1880: All roads lead to Leadville -- 7. The silver eighties: the best of times, the worst of times -- 8. There'll be a hot time -- 9. The everlasting love of the game -- Photographic essay: Nineteenth-century Colorado mining -- 10. 1900-1929: Looking forward into yesterday -- 11. Mucking through Depression, war, and new ideas -- 12. Mining on the docket of public opinion: the environmental age -- Photographic essay: Colorado mining in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Epilogue: A tale well told -- Notes -- Bibliographical essay -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gold mines and mining -- Colorado -- History
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Silver mines and mining -- Colorado -- History
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Gold mines and mining
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Silver mines and mining
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado -- Gold discoveries
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Colorado -- History, Local
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| Subject |
Colorado
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Local history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009019215 |
| ISBN |
9781607320111 |
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1607320118 |
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