Duane A Smith

Rocky Mountain Mining Camps

The Urban Frontier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Duane A. Smith is author of¿A Colorado History, Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend, Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado, Colorado Mining: A Photographic History,¿and¿Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-Niner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 305
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9780253031143
• ISBN-10: 0253031141
• Artikelnr.: 47268881

Autorenporträt

Duane A. Smith is author of A Colorado History, Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend, Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado, Colorado Mining: A Photographic History, and Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-Niner.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Urban Frontier
2. Young America
3. Not All Were Welcome
4. When Young America Finds a Good Gold Gulch
5. Boom Days
6. Growing Pains
7. Maturing in Spite of Itself
8. Magnet in the Mountains
9. Problems of Urbanization
10. The Mature Camp
11. Community Leadership
12. Life Was Never Easy
13. A Time for Relaxation
14. The Tiger is Found
15. The Promised Land
Bibliographical Essay
Works Cited
Notes
Index