Category: Travel Writing
His granddaughter has carried on the family tradition. She is the author of the interesting series of Bancroft Booklets, _Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor_, _Famous Aspen_, _Denver’s Lively Past_, _Historic Central City_, _The Brown Palace in Denver_, _Tabor’...
By 1881 when George Crofutt wrote his _Grip-Sack Guide of Colorado_ he reported that Virginia City had changed its name to Tin Cup to conform with the name of the region. He add...
2. Part 2In 1934 Alice, like many other Colorado gold camps, experienced a renascence. (This was because of the price of gold rising from $20 to $35 an ounce.) The sturdy log cabins were...
6. Part 6In 1900 the mines closed down; operated again, 1911-1913; 1926-1931; and for about fifteen years after the mid-1930’s. In 1948 two mills were vibrating, two stores and a large s...
3. Part 3Hahns Peak is the lowest in altitude of our selected towns—8,163 feet—and the farthest north—almost to the Wyoming line. It is now solely a summer resort, but a summer resort fu...
4. Part 4Stumptown lies in South Evans Gulch, east of Leadville. It was the place where Maggie Tobin Brown lived as the bride of Jim Brown, manager of the Little Jonny mine. It is also w...
1. Part 1His granddaughter has carried on the family tradition. She is the author of the interesting series of Bancroft Booklets, _Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor_, _F...
7. Part 7This list of friends, in fact, could be extended almost indefinitely—so best I terminate with a heartfelt “thank you” to all the above, and sundry unnamed, for many kinds of help.