A little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in
the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a
"silver rush" with an output of precious metals second in Colorado
only to that of Leadville. In a period of less than twenty-five
years, more than thirty million dollars in silver, lead, zinc,
copper, and gold were taken from the rich deposits in the mines
along Red Mountain Divide -- an amount roughly equivalent to a
quarter billion of today's dollars. The histories of the
communities that sprang into being with these mines, the railroads
constructed to service them, and the men and women who lived,
worked and died in them, are the threads deftly woven into the
richly textured story of Mountains of Silver. It is a colorful and
varied tapestry that depicts the lives of prospectors who made the
first rich strikes; the land promoters, speculators, and
road-and-railroad builders who capitalized on the frenzied rush to
the area; and the motley collection of miners, lawyers, merchants,
prostitutes, saloonkeepers, and freighters who attempted to profit
from the boom.
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