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Language: English
Published by Alpenrose Press, Silverthorne, Colorado, U.S.A., 1980
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Rubbed along the edges. Some surface loss at the bottom right corner of the back where a sticker was removed or something like that. Strong binding. Signed by the author on the half-title page.
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- Title
- Summit: A Gold Rush History of Summit County Colorado
- Author
- Gilliland, Mary
- Publisher
- Alpenrose Press, Silverthorne, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1980
- Condition
- Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 096036241X
- ISBN 13
- 9780960362417
- Seller catalogs
- Americana/Westward Expansion
A lively gold rush history of Summit County, Colorado which has been designated a Best Seller by Colorado bookstores. Narrow-gauge alpine railways, Ute Indians, lusty mine camps, the 1860s birth of now-famous local ski towns and self guided mine tours all highlight this classic history. A parade of larger-than-life characters march across its pages--people like dredge king Ben Stanley Revett and Colorado's famed Snowshoe Itinerant, John Lewis Dyer, the skiing preacher. Saints and sinners (mostly sinners) lead the parade of prospectors, claimjumpers, shyster lawyers, shady ladies and hard-working miners who scaled the high mountain passes to create the history this book records.
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About the Author
Mary Ellen Gilliland is the author of 11 books and more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles. A seasoned researcher and punchy writer, she maintains the position of Summit County, Colorado's chief historian, with five books on the 1800s mining mecca. Gilliland is a former New York City magazine editor who has lived in the Colorado mountains since 1969.
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