Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom by Gardiner, Harvey N.

Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780942576405)

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Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom by Gardiner, Harvey N.

Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom

$14.95
Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom by Gardiner, Harvey N.

Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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In Mining Among the Clouds, Harvey N. Gardiner examines what one reporter dubbed "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.

Author: Harvey N. Gardiner
ISBN-10: 0942576403
ISBN-13: 9780942576405
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2002
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.98w x 0.36d
By Harvey N. Gardiner
By Harvey N. Gardiner
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Harvey N. Gardiner is an archivist at the University of Colorado Libraries at Boulder. He holds an M.A. in history from Southern Illinois University. He has been researching and publishing on the history of high-altitude mining in the Mosquito Range for over twenty years.

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