Beginnings -- A House of Many Uses -- Town and School in a Wilderness -- A Settlement Takes Hold -- At High Tide -- School and Town in the Eighties -- A School in Crisis -- The Turbulent Nineties -- Silverton's Life at Century's End -- Silverton Enters the 20th Century -- Public Schooling's Triumph: High School Graduation -- Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Summary
The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-203) and index
