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Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-01 - Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip. An additional 25,000 soon gave up and went back hom
Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-18 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mini
Language: en
Pages: 130
Pages: 130
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Images from the archives of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
Language: en
Pages: 466
Pages: 466
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-26 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well
Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom