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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"This is the multi-faceted story of Colorado's ordinary, but brave, men and women who experienced many joys and pains while isolated in Colorado's high country. It explains the significance of their work, which rose and fell with the mining economy in the West, especially in Colorado. It tells the story of the evolution of small-scale mining in nineteenth-century mining days, into the twentieth-century, with its urban, industrialized, large-scale...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As early as the eighteenth century, Spanish explorers left place-names, lost mines, and legends scattered throughout Colorado's San Juan Mountains. In the late 1800s the legends lured hopeful prospectors to the area, ushering in its greatest mining era and transforming it into one of the country's most celebrated mining districts.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The Road that Silver Built, runs north and south directly through the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado - some of the most beautiful and rugged country in all of North America, if not the world. However, there would be no road today if it were not for the treasure chest of minerals that early-day prospectors found, for all the gold and silver that was discovered was worth nothing if it could not be economically transported out of the mountains....