Title |
Mining among the clouds : : the Mosquito Range and the origins of Colorado's silver boom
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Names |
Gardiner, Harvey N.
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Colorado Historical Society.
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Book Number |
DBC13257
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
A reporter dubbed it "aerial" mining--silver mining at such high altitudes that the miners were literally working among the clouds. In the summer of 1871, two prospectors ventured high up Mount Bross in Colorado's Mosquito Range. There they discovered an outcropping of silver ore in blue limestone. An unprecedented find, it set off strike after strike in Park County. Thus began the silver boom that gave rise to Leadville, laying the foundation for Colorado's Silver Decade.
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Narrator |
Sierota, Norma Furer.
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Local Subject |
Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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History, United States - HUS
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History - HST
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Short Book - SH
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Audience Notes |
Female narrator.
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LC Subject |
Silver industry - Colorado - Park County - History
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Silver mines and mining - Colorado - Park County - History
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Nonfiction
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Call Number |
338.762234
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Language |
English
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Released |
2013
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Publication Info |
Denver : Colorado Talking Book Library, 2013
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: [Denver, Colo. : Colorado Historical Society, 2002] 9780942576405
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