Beschreibung:
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 mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century.
Foreword by Tom Noel; Prologue; Pike's Peak or Bust; 1859: The Year Dreams Became Reality; 1860-1864: "To Everything There is a Season"; 1864-1869: "Good Times a-Comin" -- Someday; 1870-1874: Bonanza! "Three Cheers & a Tiger"; 1875-1880: 'All Roads Lead to Leadville"; The Silver Eighties: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times; "There'll Be a Hot Time"; "The Everlasting Love of the Game": Photographic Essay: Nineteenth-Century Colorado Mining; 1900-1929: Looking Forward into Yesterday; Mucking through Depression, War, & New Ideas; Mining on the Docket of Public Opinion: The Environmental Age; Index.