ART OF THE GOLD RUSH. Driesbach, Jones, & Holland.
Artworks associated with the California gold rush of 1849, accompaniment to museum exhibit. Published by University of California Press with Crocker Art Museum and Oakland Museum of California. Color illustrations, 166 large-format pages.
Inventory= 1. ISBN: 0-520-21432-3. Order #:UNCA3462 paper$29.95.

 

 

THE BARON, THE LOGGER, THE MINER, AND ME--paper. by John H. Toole.
People-crammed Montana history, wonderful tales of adventure; biography of author and his family during earlier periods--their industries and lives. Illustrated with photographs, 280 large-format pages, with index. Still in shrink-wrap from publisher.
ISBN:0-87842-185-8. 1984. Order #: MOPR2046 paper$14.95.

THE BARON, THE LOGGER, THE MINER, AND ME--cloth. by John H. Toole.
People-crammed Montana history, wonderful tales of adventure; biography of author and his family during earlier periods--their industries and lives. Illustrated with photographs, 280 large-format pages, with index. 2 tears on dust jacket.
ISBN: 0-87842-174-2. 1984. Order #: MOPR4638 cloth$35.00.

 

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).
Facsimile of 1875 edition of Clemens' hilarious story "rescued" from a translation into French. Reprint of the 1875 edition of Mark Twain's tale of Jim Smiley and his jumping frog. 32 pages, illustrated. Out of print this edition.
ISBN: 978-0-910584-02-9. Order #: FILT4512 paper$6.00.

 

 

COLORADO GOLD: from the Pike's Peak rush to the present. Stephen M. Voynick.
"In Colorado Gold, Stephen Voynick has created a masterpiece intermingling gold rushes, booms, and busts, with geology and mining technologies, legends, and lore." —True West.
The early miners who panned for gold in 1858 on the banks of Cherry Creek, where Denver now stands, could not have known how profoundly that precious metal would soon affect the emerging state of Colorado. Their boom soon turned to bust. But subsequent discoveries at Cripple Creek and other places yielded more than enough "color" to coat the dome on Colorado's capitol.
Colorado Gold is the story of gold--concealed within the Rockies for ages, affecting the destinies of people and landscapes today. It is a historical account that assesses our enduring, romantic drive to extract this unusually malleable and heavy metal from the earth. Topics include both historic and modern booms and busts, gold's intrinsic value, mining technologies past and present, legends and lore, and a look at tomorrow's gold. 224 6x9. OUT OF PRINT; we have 1 copy left.
ISBN: 0-87842-455-5. Order #: MOPR1157 paper$14.00.

 

CRIPPLE CREEK CONFLAGRATIONS. Dr. Lester L. Williams.
How the mining town of Cripple Creek suffered two devastating fires in 1896, each doing more than $1,000,000 damage. Remarkably, the two fires occurred just four days apart. Author Dr. Lester L. Williams was a physician, safety expert, and "fire buff".  Illus., 52 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-86541-028-2. Order #: FILT5880 paper$4.00.

 

 

FIRST GOVERNOR, FIRST LADY--John and Eliza Routt of Colorado. Joyce B. Lohse.
A dual biography of Colorado’s first governor John L. Routt and his wife, Eliza. The Routts came to Colorado when John was appointed territorial governor. They stayed for the rest of their lives. John was elected governor twice and served one term as Denver’s mayor. Their story is the exciting story of early days of Colorado statehood. Foreword by former Governor Richard Lamm. 192 pages. Illustrated with maps and photographs. 2003 EVVY Award Winner. First Governor, First Lady was awarded the Best Biography awarded by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association.
ISBN: 978-0-86541-063-3. Order #: FILT4222paper$7.50.

 

THE GOLD HUSTLERS. by Lewis Green.
Showcases the history of placer mining in the Klondike from gold discovery in 198 to the shuttingdown of the last gold dredge in 1966. Two stories emerge--that of the promoters and stock manipulators and that of  the engineers who attempted to build profitable mining operations. There was scheming for control of the Yukon mines. Photos, 355 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-88240-088-6. 1985. Soiling on back cover, insides clear. Order #: ALNO6084 paper$7.95.

 

 

IT HAPPENED IN NEVADA. by Elizabeth Gibson.
Fascinating stories about thirty events that helped make Nevada what it is today, including little-known episodes that shaped the Silver State's colorful history. Join "Pony Bob" on  his daring ride, learn of filming of an early motion picture, hear of Elvis Presley's strange wedding, read of Mark Twain's early newspaper career, train and bank robberies and more. 142 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-56044-944-7. Order #: GLPE5760 paper$14.95.

 

THE WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE: a pictorial history. by Stan Cohen.
The Klondike Gold Rush spawned the railroad in 1898. The line was built to alleviate the hardships of the gruesome trip over the passes to the gold fields in the interior of the Yukon. By the time the railroad was completed in the summer of 1900 the rush was over, but the White Pass Route survived nevertheless, and continued for 82 years to provide a vital link between the Yukon and the outside world. 8 1/2"x11", 150 pages, 200 photos.
ISBN: 0-933126-08-5. Order #: PIHI2776 paper$12.95.

"THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP" AND OTHER SKETCHES, including "Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "Tennessee's Partner". by Bret Harte.
Bret Harte was a popular writer of the gold rush days of the California Mother Lode country in the 1850s. Tales of gamblers, miners, whores, and other characters come alive in short stories. The booklet is a facsimile of the original printing with its illustrations and some additions from similar sources.
Inventory = 20.ISBN: 0-910584-77-X. Order #: FILT0476 paper$3.95.

 

MONTE CRISTO. by Phillip R. Woodhouse.
Story of area pocketed in a rugged section of Washington state's Cascade Mountains, where search for gold and silver began in 1899 and that was expected to be "as rich as the Count of Monte Cristo". Activity included hauling mining machinery in and even constructing a railroad plus locating an aerial tramway to reach to a mine high on the mountainside. At one time the town had a thousand residents. Winter snows and floods added to the challenge from rock slides and workers' strikes, ore deposits erratic in size and grade so that mining ceased about 1920, with some continued use of hotels and the construction of a road, now closed. Today Monte Cristo is a ghost town. Historical photographs, bibliography, chronology, 327 pages, index.
Inventory =1. ISBN: 0-916890-66-X. 1979. Order #: MOUN2608 cloth$15.00.

 

NEVADA GHOST TOWN TRAILS. by Mickey Broman.
Photos and maps lead you to 35 sites throughout the state, with maps showing the locations of dozens more. Extended captions tell of histories, production, principals, ores mined, mills, remaining structures, old-time killings and gunplay. Maps, index, photographs, 80 pages.
ISBN: 0-935182-09-8. 1984. Order #: GEMG7588 paper$6.95.

 

 

PLATARO: Colorado mining camp and resort town. by Leland Feitz.
In Spanish, plataro means silver and oro means gold, hence the name of this mining camp that evolved into a summer getaway. Mining history, floods on the Conejos River, dam construction, ore-processing mills, fire, early tourism and its growth, hunting and fishing in early days. 40 historical photos, 32 pages, maps.
ISBN: None. 1969. Order #: LILO4995 paper$4.95.

 

 

RUSH FOR RICHES: gold fever and the making of California. by Holliday.
ISBN: -520-21402-1. 1999. Order #: UNCA2719 paper$35.00. Describe, then add to other pages.

 

 

 

THE SHIRLEY LETTERS from the California Mines 1851-1852. Dame Shirley (Louise A.K.S. Clapper).
Classic Gold Rush Americana literature--daily life and momentous adventures, mining techniques, characters portrayed in 23 letters written by a physician's wife about the Feather and Yuba River mines. First published in The Pioneer, 1854-55 and inspiring some of the writings of Bret Harte and possibly Mark Twain. 221 pages.
ISBN: 0-878905-004-7. Order #: GISM1082 paper$14.95.

 

TO THE PIKE'S PEAK GOLD FIELDS, 1859. by Leroy R. Hafen,
The Pike's Peak gold rush of 1859 into Colorado attracted as many gold seekers as that of 1849 into California. Presents gold rush diaries chronicling the struggles, dreams, and heartaches of those who traveled the overland routes to seek untold riches .
ISBN: 978-0-8032-7341-2 . Order #: UNNE1843 paper$19.95.

 

 

UNSINKABLE: the Molly Brown story. Joyce Lohse.
Heroine of the Titanic sinking and philanthropist. Margaret 'Molly' Brown's life was the stuff of legends. The heroine of the Titanic disaster was also a business woman, art collector, social and political activist and philanthropist during her full life. As she said of others, she had "a heart as big as a ham." 2007 EVVY Award from Colorado Independent Publishers Association for second place in Juvenile category.
ISBN: 978-0-86541-081-7. Order #: FILT4786 paper$8.95.

 

VICTOR: a quick history of Colorado's "City of Mines".
One of the greatest of all gold mining towns. 70 photos, 48 pages. 1969.
ISBN: 0-636564-13-X. 1969. b/w cover.  Order #: LILO0755 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

VICTOR: a quick history--Colorado's City of Mines. by Leland Feitz.
Colorado's "City of Mines", one of greatest gold mining towns, located at th extreme south end of Victor, making a trip here a "two-for-one." At one point in time Victor was served by three railroads, had a population of 55,000 including 8,000 miners around 1900 Victor was served by three railroads and an electric street car line. Includes the story of the fire that leveled Victor and how it was rebuilt. 70 photos, mainly historical. Tells of labor wars and the people of Victor. 48 pages. 1969.
Inventory = 2 (separate edition from above title). ISBN: 0-936564-13-X. 1969, newer cover.  Order #: LILO5271 paper$5.95.

 

THE WALLS TALK: historic house museums of Colorado. by Patricia Werner.
Presents 37 stories of special Colorado houses in Front Range areas and on the western slope: Eaton House, Barney Ford House, Bloom Ranch, Cozens Ranch and Stage Stop, Molly Brown House, Rosemount Museum, Tabor House of Leadville, and more. Includes insights into the lives of those who lived in these now historic places. 239 large-format pages, photographs.
ISBN: 978-0-8654-095-4. Order #: FILT8563 paper$16.95.

 

 

YUKON POEMS of ROBERT W. SERVICE. Sourdough Edition.
Familiar and timeless poems of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 by a bank clerk in Dawson and Whitehorse of British Columbia::
    "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"
    "The Law of the Yukon"
    "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
    "The Spell of the Yukon"
    "The Song of the Wage-slave"
illustrated with wood engravings, 26 pages.
Inventory= 1. ISBN: 0-86541-040-2. 1997. /Order #: FILT2164 paper$19.50.

 

 

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AT A NEW MINING CAMP: Creede of Colorado, 1892. by Richard Harding Davis.
Today Creede is a "ghost" town in southwestern Colorado (the italics because today's residents don't like being called ghosts), a remnant of its former size and glory. But author Davis reports it when activity there seemed circus-like. At the1892 time Creede was growing rapidly to a population of 8,000. The town was rip-roaring, and this account helps us understand the bustle as well as the unbounded hope and optimism at the site of a new mining boom. Reprinted from 19th century originals.; Period illustrations, 32 little pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-018-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-018-8. Order #: VIST0018 paper$3.95.



CRIPPLE CREEK 1900--a Colorado mining camp. by Francis Lynde.
Cripple Creek got a later start than most of the West's famous mining camps. In fact, many of its predecessors had already played out by 1891 when the Golconda was uncovered here. Tells how Cripple Creek got its name, gives history of nearby Pikes Peak, explains the mines and their mechanization. Because the industrial revolution was at peak in America in 1900, the technology of railway, electricity, and steam drilling could be applied at Cripple Creek. Reading this account helps us understand how Colorado and other Western states which had mineral resources were able to get a good and early start on their development, albeit at the expense of the Cripple Creeks, which were destined to bust just as they had been destined to boom. Period illustrations, 20 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-080-0. Order #: VIST0080 paper$3.95.

MARK TWAIN'S VIRGINIA CITY: Nevada Territory in the 1860s. by Mark Twain. (Samuel Clemens).
Here are the famous humorist's adventures in and around early Virginia City, Nevada Territory (now Nevada state). There are silver mining, speculation in silver mines, work in a quartz mill. A trip to Lake Tahoe to secure a timber empire resulted mainly in starting a forest fire. There was the search for the Lost Cement Mine, and, finally, reporting for "The Territorial Enterprise", Virginia City's rollicking newspaper that reported the episodes of riches and murders rampant in this important Western mining center. The writings here were first published in 1872 in "Roughing It", but we have pulled from the larger work just episodes on Virginia City in order to maintain that as a focus. Read these Twain anecdotes for fun, but, remember, too, that these incidents really happened, and that the principals were often in dead earnest; it just took Twain's insights to show the satirical side of human nature. Illustrations are from the original book and other sources. 64 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-074-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-074-4. Order #: VIST0074 paper$6.95.

A MINER'S SUNDAY, 1849. by Charles B. Gillespie.
This story is set in Coloma, the California gold discovery site of 1848. But it might have happened at any of the gold-rush sites of the West--Virginia City, Cripple Creek, the Klondike--and it probably did, but only on Sunday. Town was a lively place the one day the mines were shut down, with a mix of nationalities engaging in gambling, auctions, horse-racing, shopping for clothes and supplies, eating, drinking, brawling, and general tom-foolery as you might expect from a bunch of young men from all over the world who were off to a get-rich adventure. Illustrations are from early sources, including the original article of 1891, Frederic Remington, and the Crocker Art Museum. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-005-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-005-8. 1981. Order #: VIST0005 paper$3.95.

THE MURDER OF JULIA BULETTE: Virginia City, Nevada; 1867--with the life and confession of John Millian, convicted murderer.
by Charles E. DeLong, convicted murderer's attorney, et. al.
Julia, a courtesan now legendary, had not only been a favorite female companion of Virginia City's males, but had been an active contributor to the community in times of civil need, such as the Comstock's early, terrible winters when she attended the sick and needy. Her support of the volunteer fire brigade earned her the title of Honorary Member. Her murder severely offended the camp's code of decency, hard though that was. When her murderer was found, tried, convicted, and hung, virtually the whole town turned out for the final event, "a fine hanging", "the most gala to date in Nevada", it was called. That same evening, Mark Twain, returning from the Holy Land to this town where he had begun his writing career, gave a lecture. Reprinted from a pamphlet issued on the eve of the hanging of Julia's murderer.
Illustrations from contemporary publications. 16 pages.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-044-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-044-7. Order #: VIST0044 paper$3.95.

SILVER SAN JUAN: the mines and high scenery in Colorado's southwest mountains--in 1882. by Ernest Ingersoll.
Presents early sketches of this region where the Colorado Rocky Mountains culminate in their grandest scenic display, including Silverton, Rico, Animas Canyon, Capitol City, Lake City. Although mines and mining are the prime topic in this early history, and the writing gives a good picture of mining in the mountain West, the author admired the landscapes greatly, too. It was a time for that in America, when national pride in Western grandeur was swelling. Silver San Juan was a great place for such pride, for the region has been called "The Switzerland of America". Most of the region's minerals have now been removed, but the economic input from that source is replaced by tourists who come enthusiastically in numbers. For those who want to know the background of the region they visit, this book is for them. Reprinted from 1882. Illustrations by Thomas Moran and others. 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-025-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-025-6. Order #: VIST0025 paper$3.95.

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