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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Download or read book Silver Queen written by Caroline Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silver Queen written by Jane Candia Coleman and published by Amazon Encore. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passionate, compelling and magnificently authentic story of the first woman in the camps of the Colorado silver mines, and how her strength and courage helped her endure through one of the biggest scandals of the time.
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:
Download or read book Heart of the Rockies written by Angela Breidenbach and published by Gems Books. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of the Rockies, the 3rd book in bestselling Montana author, Angela Breidenbach's, Queen of the Rockies series. Could she believe in herself when no one else did? 1892, Helena MT: Delphina O'Connor believed God-given dreams for women didn't stop at marriage and children. Hers might not include a husband or family at all. So, when Hugh Thomas rescues the new swimming instructor at the elegant Broadwater Natatorium from near drowning in the Victorian-styled resort pool, how can anyone believe the freedom to enjoy swimming, competition, and a healthy body is an appropriate activity for a proper lady? Hugh is about to find out status quo is the starting line for a courageous woman with a dream! Explore the elaborate true history of the Broadwater Hotel and Natatorium through romantic fiction, though you'll meet several iconic people from Montana's true history in these pages. You might even meet your own ancestor as Angela Breidenbach weaves genealogical and historical tidbits like Easter eggs into this fun glimpse of Montana's elegant past. Once the richest city in the world with millionaires galore, this Gilded Age society exists only in our memory. But what a memory she left us! Heart of the Rockies explores the real-world question: What do you do when you think differently than the world around you? Lovely story that shares the early days of women in synchronized swimming nearing the turn-of-the-century when traditional sensibilities conflict with modern ideas. How does a traditional man learn to love a woman with modern ideas?
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
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.
Download or read book Colorado Forest Highway 80 Guanella Pass Road written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roxy Doyle and the Silver Queen written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in Leadville, Colorado, Roxy Doyle is asked by Silver Baron Horace Tabor to take on the task of finding out who is trying to sabotage his mining operation. At the same time, she meets Tabor’s young wife, the Silver Queen Baby Doe Tabor. Both of the Tabors are depending on her to keep their Matchless Mine from going under. To do that she must go undercover at the mine and risk her life to discover who committed sabotage and murder to try and ruin the lives of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor.
Download or read book Legends and Tales of the Rockies written by Amanda Mae Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Beauty in the Rockies written by Sybil Downing and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four stories depict life in late 19th-century Colorado.
