Contents
Foreword
Prologue
1: Pike’s Peak or Bust
2: 1859: The Year Dreams Became Reality
3: 1860-1864: “To Everything There Is a Season”
4: 1864-1869: “Good Times a-Comin”—Someday
5: 1870–1874: Bonanza! Three Cheers and a Tiger”
6: 1875–1880: “All Roads Lead to Leadville”
7: The Silver Eighties: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
8: “There’ll Be a Hot Time”
9: “The Everlasting Love of the Game”
Photographic Essay- Nineteenth-Century Colorado Mining
10: 1900–1929: Looking Forward into Yesterday
11: Mucking through Depression, War, and New Ideas
12: Mining on the Docket of Public Opinion: The Environmental Age
Photographic Essay- Colorado Mining in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Epilogue: A Tale Well Told
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index