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Book Synopsis The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies by : Christine Bradley
Download or read book The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies written by Christine Bradley and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many studies of local communities during their heydays, but the life of a community in decline is rarely studied. The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies delves into the life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed. One of the earliest mining communities in the state, Georgetown began to struggle for survival as the nineteenth century drew to a close. The price of silver dropped precipitously while other mining camps were still opening around the region. The new, bright future once envisioned for the “Silver Queen of the Rockies” began to fade. Yet the community managed to survive and re-create itself in the new world of the twentieth century. Tourism, skiing, and historic preservation replaced mineral extraction as the basis of the regional economy. Today, Georgetown maintains the aesthetic feel of a nineteenth-century mining town and stands as an example of community-supported historic preservation. This richly illustrated sequel to The Rise of the Silver Queen tells the compelling story of Georgetown’s survival, and ultimate flourishing, after the loss of its principal industry. It is an interesting and engaging addition to the history of Colorado and the West.
Book Synopsis Women of the Colorado Mines by : Linda Wommack
Download or read book Women of the Colorado Mines written by Linda Wommack and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dig deeper into Colorado history through the stories of these remarkable women. Beginning with the discovery of gold near present-day Denver in 1858, Colorado’s placers and mines promised vast riches of gold, silver, and other precious minerals. That promise lured throngs of treasure seekers, including more than a few strong, savvy women. In Women of the Colorado Mines, author Linda Wommack digs deep into their tribulations and triumphs to reveal the true lives of women prospectors, mine owners, labor advocates, and a handful of mining heiresses who found fabulous wealth in them thar hills.
Book Synopsis Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine by : Leigh Campbell-Hale
Download or read book Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine written by Leigh Campbell-Hale and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining the American West Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States. While historians have written prolifically about the 1914 Ludlow Massacre, there has been a lack of attention to the violent event remembered now as the Columbine Massacre in which police shot and killed six striking coal miners and wounded sixty more protestors during the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike, even though its aftermath exerted far more influence upon subsequent national labor policies. This volume is a comparative biography of three key participants before, during, and after the strike: A. S. Embree, the IWW strike leader; Josephine Roche, the owner of the coal mine property where the Columbine Massacre took place; and Powers Hapgood, who came to work for Roche four months after she signed the 1928 United Mine Worker’s contract. The author demonstrates the significance of this event to national debates about labor during the period, as well as changes and continuities in labor history starting in the progressive era and continuing with 1930s New Deal labor policies and through the 1980s. This examination of the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike reorients understandings of labor history from the 1920s through the 1960s and the construction of public memory—and forgetting—surrounding those events. Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine appeals to academic and general readers interested in Colorado history, labor history, mining history, gender studies, memory, and historiography.
Book Synopsis Mining Irish-American Lives by : Alan J. M. Noonan
Download or read book Mining Irish-American Lives written by Alan J. M. Noonan and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining Irish-American Lives focuses on the importance and influence of the Irish within the mining frontier of the American West. Scholarship of the West has largely ignored the complicated lives of the Irish people in mining towns, whose life details are often kept to a bare minimum. This book uses individual stories and the histories of different communities—Randsburg, California; Virginia City, Nevada; Leadville, Colorado; Butte, Montana; Idaho’s Silver Valley; and the Comstock Lode, for example—to explore Irish and Irish-American lives. Historian Alan J. M. Noonan uses a range of previously overlooked sources, including collections of emigrant letters, hospital logbooks, private detective reports, and internment records, to tell the stories of Irish men and women who emigrated to mining towns to search for opportunity. Noonan details the periods, the places, and the experiences over multiple generations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He carefully examines their encounters with nativists, other ethnic groups, and mining companies to highlight the contested emergence of a hyphenated Irish-American identity. Unearthing personal details along with the histories of different communities, the book investigates Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans through the prism of their own experiences, significantly enriching the history of the period.
Download or read book Eben Smith written by David Forsyth and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history. Smith was one of the many fortune seekers who traveled to California during the gold rush and one of the few who found what he sought. He moved to Colorado in 1860 with business partner Jerome Chaffee and over the next forty-six years was involved in mining in nearly every major camp in the state, from Central City to Cripple Creek, and in the development of mines such as the Bobtail, Little Jonny, and Victor. He was eulogized by the Denver Post and Denver Times as the “dean of mining in Colorado.” The mining teams Smith formed with Chaffee and with industrialist David Moffat were among the most successful and respected in Colorado, and many in the state held Smith in high regard. Yet despite the credit he received during his lifetime for establishing Colorado’s mining industry, Smith has not received much attention from historians, perhaps because he was content to leave public-facing duties to his partners while he concerned himself with managing mine operations. From Smith’s early years and his labor in the mines to his rise to prominence as an investor and developer, Forsyth shows how Smith used the mining and milling knowledge he acquired in California to become a leader in technological innovation in Colorado’s mining industry.
Download or read book Silver Queen written by Caroline Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Swing Low Silver Chariot by : Eileen Thennis
Download or read book Swing Low Silver Chariot written by Eileen Thennis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of one abandoned 1880â€TMs young lady of the times who struggled to rise from the depths of degradation to obtain the silver chariot of her dreams. Through the eyes of Nina (Nicole), we see again the city she saw and experience her heartaches & dreams. We feel her pain when, to save his soul, she walks away from the only man she can ever love. Under threat of her life she makes a dash to freedom in seek of a new future, love & happiness.
Book Synopsis The Legend of Baby Doe by : John Burke
Download or read book The Legend of Baby Doe written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Queen of the Rockies by : Angela Breidenbach
Download or read book Queen of the Rockies written by Angela Breidenbach and published by Gems Books. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will her courage cost? 1889 (Helena, MT): As the gold rush era ends in the most elegant and modern city in the world and Montana emerges as a state, one woman must decide if social pressure will prevail over her own beliefs. Calista Blythe enters the first Miss Snowflake Pageant celebrating Montana at Christmastime to expose the plight of street urchins. But hiding an orphan could unravel Calista's reputation, and her budding romance with pageant organizer, Albert Shanahan, if her secret is revealed. Will love or societal pressure prevail? Courage is choosing to do the right thing regardless of the cost... Romantic, comedic adventure set in picturesque Helena, Montana written by a bestselling author who is also a professional genealogist. Will courage cost her everything? As Montana emerges into statehood, one woman must decide if social pressure will prevail when she hides an endangered child, risking her own future happiness. Queen of the Rockies — Book 1 of 6, opens this delightful series of Gilded Age historical romances peppered with genealogical tidbits.
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 Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her love affair with H.A.W. Tabor created a sensational triangle and caused a national scandal in the 1880s.
Book Synopsis Song of the Rockies by : Angela Breidenbach
Download or read book Song of the Rockies written by Angela Breidenbach and published by Gems Books. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song of the Rockies ~ 1890, Helena MT: Song of the Rockies is the story of a sweet music teacher and eleven boys given one chance or else! Evan Russell lost everything-his ranch, his wife, and now, after trusting relatives with his young son, even the little boy is missing. How can a beautiful symphony of the heart come from such chaos?Mirielle Sheehan, a music teacher at an exclusive boys' school, believes scholarships for disadvantaged boys will solve the plight of hopeless homeless children. Mirielle's challenge is to turn eleven street ruffians of various ages into stellar, disciplined boys with a future. Most think guttersnipes like this should be sold into indenture to learn a trade or pressed into the military. Get those miscreants off the streets!Evan Russell, new mining millionaire, lost everything in the disastrous winter of 1886. Then his wife died leaving him with a son. Relatives in Helena offer a safe home for the child while Evan must find work in the mines. When he returns, he's devastated to learn the entire family perished in a fire, and his son has never been found. Though he gained a fortune, he's lost everything he valued!Romantic, sweet adventure set in picturesque Helena, Montana written by a bestselling author who is also a professional genealogist
Book Synopsis Beauty in the Rockies by : Sybil Downing
Download or read book Beauty in the Rockies written by Sybil Downing and published by Downing-Barker Books. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to the Georgetown-Silver Plume Historical District by : Neely
Download or read book Guide to the Georgetown-Silver Plume Historical District written by Neely and published by Johnson Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heart of the Rockies by : Angela Breidenbach
Download or read book Heart of the Rockies written by Angela Breidenbach and published by Gems Books. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could she believe in herself when no one else did? 1892, Helena MT: Delphina believed God-given dreams for women didn't stop at marriage and children. Lovely story when traditional sensibilities conflict with modern ideas.
Download or read book Leaden Skies written by Ann Parker and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Parker is proficient in showing the crossroads between civilization and the frontier, including emerging new roles for women. A cliffhanger ending sets a promising stage for the next installment."—Publishers Weekly It's the summer of 1880, and potential investment in Leadville's silver mines has brought former president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant to this city at the top of the Rockies. But others in his retinue and in town have different agendas. Political aspirations fuel the dreams of young John Quincy Adams Wesley and his mother, while itinerant fire insurance mapmaker Cecil Farnesworth struggles against the seductive call of Leadville's red-light district. As part owner of the Silver Queen Saloon, Inez Stannert has often observed the ruination that comes from yielding to temptation. Still, that hasn't stopped her from taking Reverend Justice Sands as her lover. Nor does it stop her from striking a backroom deal with upscale brothel madam Frisco Flo that Inez gambles will make her financially independent. But when the body of one of Flo's women is discovered and Inez learns that Flo has another silent business partner whose identity she will not divulge, Inez begins to have second thoughts. In a race to untangle the dealings of the high and the low during Grant's visit, Inez finds herself facing demons from her past, even as she fights to save her reputation and her life. Silver Rush Mysteries: Silver Lies (Book 1) Iron Ties (Book 2) Leaden Skies (Book 3) Mercury's Rise (Book 4) What Gold Buys (Book 5) A Dying Note (Book 6) Mortal Music (Book 7) Praise for the Silver Rush Mysteries: "Plenty of convincing action bodes well for a long and successful series."—Publishers Weekly STARRED review for Iron Ties "Meticulously researched and full of rich period details...her characters will stay will you long after you've finished the last page. Highly recommended."—TASHA ALEXANDER, New York Times bestselling author for Mortal Music "One of the most authentic and evocative historical series around. Long live Inez!"—RHYS BOWEN, New York Times bestselling author for What Gold Buys Colorado Book Award Finalist
Book Synopsis They'Ve Got Rockies in Their Heads! by : Lew Cady
Download or read book They'Ve Got Rockies in Their Heads! written by Lew Cady and published by . This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
