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Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
The San Juan Skyway winds its way up, over, and through canyons, mesas, plateaus, mountains, plains, and valleys. The sheer variety of landforms makes the Skyway a veritable classroom for the amateur naturalist and historian.
The most complete work published on the natural history of southwest Colorado's majestic mountain system, The Western San Juan Mountains: Their Geology, Ecology, and Human History is designed to be used while exploring the scenic...
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The Road that Silver Built, runs north and south directly through the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado - some of the most beautiful and rugged country in all of North America, if not the world. However, there would be no road today if it were not for the treasure chest of minerals that early-day prospectors found, for all the gold and silver that was discovered was worth nothing if it could not be economically transported out of the mountains....
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is the multi-faceted story of Colorado's ordinary, but brave, men and women who experienced many joys and pains while isolated in Colorado's high country. It explains the significance of their work, which rose and fell with the mining economy in the West, especially in Colorado. It tells the story of the evolution of small-scale mining in nineteenth-century mining days, into the twentieth-century, with its urban, industrialized, large-scale...
10) Images of the San Juans: historic selections from the Ruth and Marvin Gregory photograph collection
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
Images of the San Juans is a rare treat--a collection of over 250 photos, many never before published, of the life and times of the people of the San Juan region of southwestern Colorado. These photographs were taken from the extensive collection of Ruth and Marvin Gregory, a couple whose love for the San Juan Mountains is evident. Their friend, Ouray historian, P. David Smith, has supplied the captions as only he can--with great care, with, and wonder....
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roger Henn, storyteller extraordinaire, relates tales of early miners, lost gold mines, boyhood adventures, ghost stories and other delightful and informative lore about times long ago in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.
Author
Publisher
Western Reflections Pub
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
The well-written letters of Eben Olcott reveal a very different side of the rough and rowdy mining frontier that captured Colorado in the 1880s. San Juan Gold illuminates the details of daily life from the perspective of an educated, successful mining engineer.
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