Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Map -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Living Downstream -- 2. Boom Years -- 3. The Fortunes of ASARCO -- 4. The Shutdown -- 5. Overrun by Outsiders -- 6. The Brown Envelope -- 7. Plugging the Yak -- 8. The Lead in Leadville -- 9. Stall, Stall, Stall -- 10. ""Beyond Denial -- 11. A New Era -- 12. Moving Yellow Iron -- 13. Stray Horse Gulch -- 14. Give and Take -- 15. Saving Oro City -- 16. The Hydrologic Center of the Earth -- 17. Kids First -- 18. Doc's Meadows -- 19. Appalachia of the West -- 20. Wedding Cakes and Merlot Ponds -- Epilogue