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San Juan Legacy - Life in the Mining Camps (Paperback)
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San Juan Legacy - Life in the Mining Camps (Paperback)
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As early as the eighteenth century, Spanish explorers left
place-names, lost mines, and legends scattered throughout
Colorado's San Juan Mountains. In 1869 and the early 1870s the
legends lured hopeful prospectors to the area, ushering in its
greatest mining era and transforming it into one of the country's
most celebrated mining districts. Faced with a boom-bust economy,
unpredictable weather, and the risk of violent death, mining camps
and towns nevertheless struggled to institute local governments
that would address issues such as sanitation, the maintenance of
schools, and the enforcement of law and order.
As the economic boom headed toward its inevitable decline, towns
like Silverton, Ouray, Telluride, Creede, Lake City, and Rico found
themselves seeking visitors and tourists who wanted to experience
the historical West and its accompanying folklore and legend. The
pioneers and mining communities were supplanted in that rugged and
unforgiving terrain. In this history of the San Juan mining region,
Duane Smith's text and John Ninnemann's photographs offer a glimpse
into the lives of towns that sprang up in remote canyons and
mountain plateaus in southwestern Colorado and the settlers who
attempted to recreate the eastern communities they had left behind.
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