San Juan Legacy: Life in the Mining Camps

by Duane A. Smith

Book Overview

As early as the eighteenth century, Spanish explorers left place-names, lost mines, and legends scattered throughout Colorado's San Juan Mountains. In 1869 and the early 1870s the legends lured hopeful prospectors to the area, ushering in its greatest mining era and transforming it into one of the country's most celebrated mining districts. Faced with a boom-bust economy, unpredictable weather, and the risk of violent death, mining camps and towns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826346502
• ISBN13: 9780826346506
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"