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Colorado History: MINING

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Book cover for "Colorado's lost gold mines and buried treasure"
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My father, George Jarvis Bancroft, was a consulting engineer. He held degrees both in mining and in civil engineering, particularly reclamation of the latter division. In the early 1900's he was very successful, and his fees more than sustained a living for his young wife and two daughters. But the panic of 1907 caused a number of his Eastern clients to withdraw both their interest and their investments in the West. He found it harder and harder...
Book cover for "Gold, god, the devil, and silver"
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With the help of this book you will learn what to look for, where to find it, and what to do with it when you do find it.
Book cover for "Here they dug the gold"
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Book cover for "Leadville, a miner's epic"
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A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.
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A field guide for exploring the many old mine sites across the West and understanding the relics strewn around an abandoned mine, or it can be useful in understanding the processes involved in mining in the nineteenth century in the United States.
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Book cover for "Tabor's Matchless Mine and lusty Leadville"
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Book cover for "Tales, trails, and tommyknockers"
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Presents a potpourri of historical information and legends about Colorado.
Book cover for "The trail of gold and silver"
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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.