Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis

by Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel

Book Overview

This lively best seller by leading Colorado historians Steve Leonard and Tom Noel is the most comprehensive survey ever written of the Mile High metropolis. Informative and richly illustrated, Denver covers the developing region from the mountain towns of Boulder and Jefferson counties to the High Plains settlements of Adams and Arapahoe counties, with more than two-thirds of the book devoted to the burgeoning five-county region since 1900.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870812408
• ISBN13: 9780870812408
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, with a need for a new edition

Published in 1990, this book functions as a dense introduction to the full span of Denver history -- from the town's beginnings as a provider of goods and services to miners leaving for the mountains, to its rise as a transportation and medical hub of the Plains, to its recent oil and high-tech booms. The book is thoughtful and intelligent (and basically the only solid semi-recent book I can find about Denver). The ten years since the book was published have seen immense change in Denver (economic revival, massive suburban growth), however, and the volume sorely needs a discussion of how the recent decade's events and growth have changed the metropolitan area.