San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado's Mining Legacy

by Duane A. Smith

Colorado's San Juan Mountains are home to some of the most historic, and notorious, gold and silver mining towns in the West: Ouray, Silverton, Telluride, and Creede. For five centuries, the San Juans were the summer home to the Ute Indians. They were explored and claimed by Spaniards 250 years ago, and it has only been 150 years since they were entered and permanently settled by European Americans. Probably above all else, the San Juan Mountains'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826335780
• ISBN13: 9780826335784
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 10.3"