LEADER 03450nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910974424203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781607320111 010 $a1607320118 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008313 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039712 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10356776 035 $a(OCoLC)635947439 035 $a(Perlego)2031542 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008313 100 $a20090507d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe trail of gold and silver $emining in Colorado, 1859-2009 /$fDuane A. Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBoulder, Colo. $cUniversity Press of Colorado$dc2009 215 $axii, 282 p. $cill., map 225 1 $aTimberline books 311 08$a9780870819575 311 08$a0870819577 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1: Pike's Peak or Bust -- 2: 1859: The Year Dreams Became Reality -- 3: 1860-1864: "To Everything There Is a Season" -- 4: 1864-1869: "Good Times a-Comin"-Someday -- 5: 1870-1874: Bonanza! Three Cheers and a Tiger" -- 6: 1875-1880: "All Roads Lead to Leadville" -- 7: The Silver Eighties: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- 8: "There'll Be a Hot Time" -- 9: "The Everlasting Love of the Game" -- Photographic Essay- Nineteenth-Century Colorado Mining -- 10: 1900-1929: Looking Forward into Yesterday -- 11: Mucking through Depression, War, and New Ideas -- 12: Mining on the Docket of Public Opinion: The Environmental Age -- Photographic Essay- Colorado Mining in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Epilogue: A Tale Well Told -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index. 330 8 $aIn The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever, affecting settlement, territorial status, statehood, publicity, development, investment, economy, jobs both in and outside the industry, transportation, tourism, advances in mining and smelting technology, and urbanization. Moreover, the first generation of Colorado mining brought a fascinating collection of people and a new era to the region. Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush. Smith's narrative will appeal to anybody with an interest in the state's fascinating mining history over the past 150 years. 410 0$aTimberline books. 606 $aGold mines and mining$zColorado$xHistory 606 $aSilver mines and mining$zColorado$xHistory 607 $aColorado$xGold discoveries 607 $aColorado$xHistory, Local 615 0$aGold mines and mining$xHistory. 615 0$aSilver mines and mining$xHistory. 676 $a978.8 700 $aSmith$b Duane A$01810449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974424203321 996 $aThe trail of gold and silver$94361782 997 $aUNINA