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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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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 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.