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[2017]
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"The year was 1931. The Great Depression was settling in for a prolonged stay while Leadville's mining district struggled to stay afloat. A few courageous local investors saw a ray of hope in the old gold mines high atop Mosquito Pass, and bet that they could make the old workings pay. George and Robert Elder were two of those investors, and this is the story of their role in Colorado's Great Depression gold rush. The father and son team put their...
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[2013]
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Lesser known than the gold and silver mines of Western lore, Southern Colorado's extensive coal mines fueled the engines for Western industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the numerous companies operating the mines, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was king. With a total of 62 mines, the majority of them in Colorado's Las Animas, Huerfano, and Fremont Counties, CF&I ruled the lives of countless miners in company towns...
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[2013]
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The author presents the true stories of murders in central Colorado's Park County. She gives a view of the sordid side of life of early settlers and miners of the South Park area. Retelling the crimes and views of the present scenes with directions to each site help put us in the picture of this lawless time and place.
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The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
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2020.
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"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are mighty proud. They managed to deliver five mail-order brides to the New Mexico mining town of Silverhill in one piece. The town is so grateful, they want to make Bo their marshal and Scratch his deputy. Bo and Scratch are happy to accept the job--and even happier to attend the weddings of the fine young women they brought here ... Cecelia has two young suitors--a well-off rancher and a low-born miner--but one of them...
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c2003
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Surviving in the uncivilized mining camps was a day-to-day struggle for most of the women living in those makeshift communities of the late 1890s and early 1900s. The stories included in Colorado Mountain Women convey many of their experiences. They battled extreme weather conditions, isolation that could drive a person mad, disease that often took their children from them, poverty and starvation, and primitive living conditions.
58) Silent Hawk
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Pub. Date
c2007
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The Templeton family comes west and settles in the rugged and dangerous mining camp at Alder Gulch in the Montana Territory in 1863. they find the ruthless camp is besieged by murderous road agents and lawmen that are led by the corrupt Sheriff Henry Plummer. Hezekiah Templeton, the teenage son, and his friend, Isaac, find the lawless camp filled with intrigue and adventure. They befriend an old Indian that is surrounded by mystical Indian Spirits,...