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Book Synopsis Forgotten Colorado Silver by : Robert D. Leonard Jr.
Download or read book Forgotten Colorado Silver written by Robert D. Leonard Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal "Referendum souvenir medal" coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William Jennings Bryan fought unsuccessfully for free silver. Surviving an initial dust-up with the Secret Service, Lesher found a loophole to place them in circulation in 1900 and 1901. Today, coin collectors pay more than $1,000 for one. This is the story of Joseph Lesher and his audacious private mint, along with the merchants in the mining towns and elsewhere who supported him.
Book Synopsis Forgotten Colorado Silver by : Robert D. Leonard Jr
Download or read book Forgotten Colorado Silver written by Robert D. Leonard Jr and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal "Referendum souvenir medal" coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William Jennings Bryan fought unsuccessfully for free silver. Surviving an initial dust-up with the Secret Service, Lesher found a loophole to place them in circulation in 1900 and 1901. Today, coin collectors pay more than $1,000 for one. This is the story of Joseph Lesher and his audacious private mint, along with the merchants in the mining towns and elsewhere who supported him.
Book Synopsis Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps by : Sandra Dallas
Download or read book Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps written by Sandra Dallas and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Book Synopsis Nelly's Silver Mine by : Helen Hunt Jackson
Download or read book Nelly's Silver Mine written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life It was Christmas morning; and Nelly March and her brother Rob were lying wide awake in their beds, wondering if it would do for them to get up and look in their stockings to see what Santa Claus had brought them. Nelly and Rob were twins; but you would never have thought so, when you looked at them, for Nelly was half a head taller than Rob, and a good deal heavier. She had always been well; but Rob had always been a delicate child. lie was ill now with a bad sore throat, and had been shut up in the house for ten days. This was the reason that he and Nelly were in bed at six o'clock this Christmas morning, instead of scampering all about the house, and waking everybody up with their shouts of delight over their presents. When they went to bed the night before, Mrs. March had said: "Now, Rob, you must promise me not to get out of bed till it is broad daylight, and the house is thoroughly warm. You will certainly take cold, if you get up in the cold room." "Mamma," said Nelly, "I needn't stay in bed just because Rob has to, need I? I can take his presents out of the stocking, and carry them to him." "You shan't, either," said Rob, fretfully. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest by : Eugene L. Conrotto
Download or read book Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest written by Eugene L. Conrotto and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handy guide to long-lost mines, rich veins of ore, silver lodes, buried treasure, other bonanzas awaiting discovery. Descriptions of each treasure, general locale, maps, more. 96 maps, over 50 other illustrations.
Book Synopsis Nelly's Silver Mine by : Helen Hunt Jackson
Download or read book Nelly's Silver Mine written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor by : Caroline Bancroft
Download or read book Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor written by Caroline Bancroft and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the “best dressed woman in the West.” It was during Baby Doe’s final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, solitude, and repentance, that fellow Coloradan Caroline Bancroft met Baby Doe, who had known Bancroft’s father for many years, and became fascinated by her “smile, the manner, the voice and the flowery speech [...] despite her diminutive size.” Following Tabor’s death in the Matchless Mine cabin on March 7, 1935, Bancroft was commissioned to write her biography, her greatest source of information provided by Sue Bonnie, who had discovered Tabor’s body. This book, originally published in 1955, is the result: “Baby Doe Tabor tells us of her life in nearly her own words—many she actually used in talking to Sue Bonnie and others I have imagined as consonant with her character and the facts of her story.”
Book Synopsis Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure by : Caroline Bancroft
Download or read book Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure written by Caroline Bancroft and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty romantic and fabled tales of Colorado's misplaced wealth inspire the reader to go search.
Book Synopsis Silver Mining Regions of Colorado by : James Parker Whitney
Download or read book Silver Mining Regions of Colorado written by James Parker Whitney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Silver Mining Regions of Colorado: With Some Account of the Different Processes Now Being Introduced for Working the Gold Ores of That Territory If we would search for precious metals, we should give our exertion in prospecting where the indications of Nature most directly point. She has lavishly distributed her gifts, and a search for them should be directed by intelligent inquiry, and not by hap-hazard or reckless effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Silver Queen written by Caroline Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The formerly beautiful and glamorous Baby Doe Tabor, her millions lost many years before, was found dead on her cabin floor at Matchless Mine in Leadville, Colorado, on March 7, 1935. Her body only partially clothed, was frozen with ten days' stiffness into the shape of a cross. Her story had been a drama of contrasts, from rags to riches and from riches back to rags again, the whole play enacted against the backdrop of Colorado's magnificient and munificent mountains. But what those ruthless snow-capped peaks give, they also take away and almost as if they were Gods, they single out certain characters in history to destroy by first making mad. Mrs. Tabor went to her death with a delusion about the Matchless Mine." - back cover.
Book Synopsis Forgotten Tales of Colorado by : Stephanie Waters
Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Colorado written by Stephanie Waters and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild characters, diverse cultures, spooky myths and slippery sales schemes color Colorado's past. In a place where shameless showdowns and dusty shootouts over money, drink and women were once standard procedure, storytelling around campfires became an integral part of a rich heritage. From the jackalope and vampires to Indian curses and snake oil salesmen, the Centennial State has it all. Weirder still are the strange but true stories like that of the first body buried in La Junta's Fairview Cemetery, a man who landed there for refusing alcohol to a kid, and that of the hotel in Telluride that once offered a promotion that included funeral costs with your stay. While history may have neglected these silly, seedy and salacious stories, author Stephanie Waters has rediscovered Colorado's best forgotten tales.
Book Synopsis Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West by : W. C. Jameson
Download or read book Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 32 tales from the area containing the backbone of America include The Gold Behind the Waterfall (Arizona), The Treasure of Deadman Cave (Colorado), Lava Cave Cache (Idaho), Henry Plummer's Lost Gold (Montana), The Curse of the Lost Sheepherder's Mine (Nevada), Lost Train Robbery Loot in Cibola County (New Mexico), Eighty Ingots in Spanish Gold (Utah), and Lost Ledge of Gold (Wyoming). As Jameson points out in his introduction, the Rocky Mountains still have many remote areas, ....
Download or read book Colorado written by Frank Fossett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Colorado: A Historical, Descriptive and Statistical Work on the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Region Popular votes for Congressional Delegates, State Governments etc. From 1861 to 1876 inclusive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book COLORADO written by FRANK. FOSSETT and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines, Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts by : Frank Fossett
Download or read book Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines, Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts written by Frank Fossett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines, Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts: Tourist's Guide to the Rocky Mountains His volume, as its name implies. Is devoted to Colorado. Its con tents are descriptive, statistical, and historical, and embrace a detailed account of the State's resources, productions, and progress. For general convenience it has been divided into four parts. The first of these will answer for a traveler's guide, and relates to routes of travel, health and pleasure resorts, scenic attractions, and climate. The second part is historical, and the third contains much information concerning the State at large and the farming and live stock interests. Part fourth is devoted to the mines. As mining is Colorado's main industry and source of wealth, it receives the space and attention its merits deserve. The statistics in this department are of the most elaborate character, and are as accurate as time, labor, and research could make them. The narrative of gold and silver mining possesses enough of romance and adventure to interest the general reader, and the descriptions of mines, and of mining and milling, together With statements of requisite out lays from beginning to end, will prove especially serviceable to investors or capitalists. The author has endeavored to furnish a compendium of useful and general information concerning Colorado, and trusts this book will meet the present requirements of the public in that respect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis River of Lost Souls by : Jonathan P. Thompson
Download or read book River of Lost Souls written by Jonathan P. Thompson and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'" —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Award–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends. JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor–in–chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.
Download or read book Colorado Treasure Tales written by and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
