Buckskin Joe, 54
Bulldog Mine, 225, 233–34
Burros, 25, 177, 184, 251
Butler, Charles, 223
Byers, William, 84
defends mining, 43, 58, 63–64
guidebook, 18
Horace Greeley, 24
mining news, 20
Rocky Mountain News, 23–24
San Juans, 53
silver, 52
visits mines, 33–34, 38
California, 6–7, 8, 29
California Gulch, 50–52, 58, 68, 100
Camp Bird Mine, 165, 210, 211
Campbell, W. R., 57
Cantrell, John, 13–14
Carbonate Mine, 104
Caribou, 76–77, 81
Caribou Mine, 81, 176
Caribou Post, 133
Carlton, Albert, 214–15
Carlton Tunnel, 214, 215
Casey, Pat, 59
Cave Basin, 203–204
Central City, 24, 71, 72
Chaffee, Jerome, 99
Chain O’ Mines, 222–23
Chase, Charles, 217, 224
Cherokees, 7, 12
Cheyenne, Wyoming, 75–76
Children, 140–41, 142
Christmas, 141, 146
Chrysolite Mine, 105, 110–11
Churches, 143–44
Cicero, 173
Civil War, 10, 44, 48, 54
Clark, Gruber and Company, 54
Clear Creek County, 79, 91, 114, 166, 202–205, 215–16
Cleveland, Grover, 155, 156
Clubs. See Lodges Coberly, Carroll, 200–201
Cockrell, James, 5 Colorado, 54, 99, 220
Colorado Bureau of Mines, 170
Colorado Midland Railroad, 114–15
Colorado Mining Association, 237
Colorado National Guard, 111
Colorado School of Mines, 89
Colorado Springs, 240
Comstock (Nevada), 21, 41, 80
Cornish Miners, 60, 81, 90
Coronado, Francisco, 1–2
Crampton, Frank, 166
Crandall, L. D., 33, 36, 49
Crawford, William, 47, 48–49
Creede, 146, 152, 154, 224–25
Crested Butte, 98
“Crime” of 73, 123–24
Cripple Creek, 146, 151, 221, 245, 248
boom, 158, 159, 170–71
cyanide, 188
labor strikes, 160–62, 196–200
production, 259
swindles, 190, 209, 260
World War II, 219, 220
Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, 234–36
Crystal, 116
Custer, George Armstrong, 89
Cyanide, 188–89, 195, 239
Day, David, 119, 137
De Vere, Pearl, 136
Denver, 12, 16, 237
Denver Mining Stock Exchange, 191
Denver Pacific Railroad, 76, 86
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, 68–69, 114, 187
Denver, South Park, & Pacific Railroad, 114, 116
Dickens, Charles, 63
Depressions: 1850s, 9–10
1890s, 156–58
1930s, 209–12
Diamonds, 84, 189
Dibbin, Frank, 65
Dixilyn Mining Corporation, 241
Dogs, 21, 135, 186
Dolores County, 92, 99. See also Rico
San Juan County
Dredges, 167–68, 205, 206–207, 219, 249
Drilling contests, 251
Durango, 114, 168, 212
Eagle Mine, 212
Ekman, Mildred, 140
Eldora, 162–63
Electricity, 146–47, 169–70, 200
Ellis, Anne, 139–40, 167
Emmons, Samuel, 108, 109
Empire City, 58
Environment, 179
Helen Hunt Jackson, 116–17
1930s, 222–24
public awakening, 227–32
revolution, 260
smoke issues, 91–92, 97
stream pollution, 92
timber, 74–75
Environmental Protection Agency, 230–31, 238–39, 240
Escalante, Velez, 3
Fairplay, 40, 92
Fall Leaf, 11, 12
Ferril, Thomas Hornsby, 221, 258
Foote, Arthur, 106
Foote, Mary Hallock, 95, 106–108, 109, 130
Fossett, Frank, 36, 102, 103, 105–106
French, 2
Fryer, George, 103
Gambling, 242
Georgetown, 38, 50, 81–82, 203, 228
1860s, 64–65, 66
production, 97–98
town government, 132, 135–36
tourism, 207
Georgia, 5
“Ghost towns,” 130, 131
Gibbons, Rev. James, 143–44
Gibbs, Martha, 140
Gillespie, Henry, 122
Gilpin, William, 6, 7, 84
Gilpin County, 79, 90, 91, 114, 157, 166, 203. See also Gregory District
“Glory Hole,” 222
Gold, 53–54, 234
“Gold Bubble,” 60–61, 65, 100
Gold Hill, 20, 38, 39
Gold King Mine, 216
Gold Limitation Order, L–280, 218–19
Golden, 24
Golden Chicken Mine, 118
Golden Cycle Corporation, 214, 215, 220, 221
Grand Army of the Republic, 144–45
“Great American Desert,” 22
Greeley, Horace, 24–27, 29, 33
Gregg, Josiah, 6
Gregory, John, 20, 40, 42
Gregory District, 30–31, 34, 35
Gregory Lode, 174
Guidebooks, 17–18, 19
Gunnison Country, 57–58, 98, 116, 201–202
Hague, James D., 82, 108
Hahn’s Peak, 205
Hall, Frank, 60–61
Harvey, Charles, 99
Haywood, William, 197
Health, 41–42 . See also Miners
Hendricks, Tom, 237
Hill, Nathaniel, 71–72, 77, 176
smelting, 73, 87–88, 96–97
Hoffman, Ernie, 140
Hollister, Ovando, 19, 36, 55
California Gulch, 68
mining conditions, 48, 49–50
silver, 52
Holmes, Julia, 13
Homestake Mining Company, 224–25, 233–34
Hoover, Herbert, 89
Hyman, David, 120, 121
Idarado Mine, 220, 233
Independence Mine, 160, 184
Indians. See Native Americans
Ingersoll, Ernest, 118
Jackson, George, 20
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 92, 116–17, 131, 227
Joyce, John, 210, 214
July Fourth, 146
King, Clarence, 108
Kingsley, Charles, 260
Klondike Rush, 170
Kokomo, 183, 207
La Plata Canyon, 217
Lake City, 99, 118
Lake County, 148, 192, 220. See also Leadville Oro City
Lavender, David, 151, 210–11, 257
Lawrence, Kansas, 11
Lawrence Party, 12–13, 15
Lawyers, 32
Leach, Samuel, 59
Leadville, 90, 130, 131–32, 201, 207
bust, 110, 111–12
fever, 103, 104, 105
prostitution, 136–37
tourism, 242
Leadville Blues, 142–43
Led-Horse Claim, 108
Lee, Abe, 50
Lee, Mabel Barbee, 136, 137, 151
Lincoln, Abraham, 48
Lindsay, Vachel, 164
Little Chief Mine, 104
Little Pittsburg Mine, 103, 104, 110
Lodges, 144–45
Loisel, Regis, 5
Lost Mines, 2
Ludlow, 162
Mallory, Samuel, 55–56
Marshall, John, 6, 7
Matchless Mine, 10
4, 207
McKibben, William, 13
McKinley, William, 163, 164
McNichols, Steve, 221–23
Mears, Otto, 117
Meeker, Nathan, 98
Meldrum, Robert, 194–95
Mercury, 34–35
Merrick, John, 23–24
Metals Reserve Company, 218
Mine names, 93
Mine Owners Association, 197, 198
Miners, 253
accidents, 192, 260
life, 109–10, 166–67
problems, 191–92, 234
wages, 72, 192, 259
Miners’ Record (Tarryall), 133
Mines. See individual mines by name
Mining, 35, 59, 80, 151, 152
abandoned mines, 231–32
“booming,” 91
“cons,”189–91
corporation, 187–88
drilling contests, 145–46
drills, 88
engineers, 89–90
hoists, 181
hydraulic, 56, 179
laws, 29–31, 32, 73–74, 83–84, 99–100, 259
legend, 136, 261
“mining fever,” 59
open pit, 254
placering, 34–35, 36, 56–57, 114, 213–14
“process mania,” 69–70
speculation, 60, 105
significance, 258–59, 262–63
tourism, 241–43
tramways, 88–89
vicissitudes, 107. See also Dredges
Environment
individual mines by name
Railroads
Urbanization
Moffat, David, 103
Mollie Gibson Mine, 121, 122
Morris, Maurice, 60
Mount Pisgah, 158
“Mountain Fever,” 49
Movies, 148–49
Moyer, Charles, 198
Mucking, 209
Mules, 25, 127, 251
National Mining Law (1872), 83–84
National Mining Museum, 242
Native Americans, 8, 9, 44, 64. See also Utes
Neglected Mine, 216
New Deal, 211–12, 213–14
New Mexico, 3, 4
New Year’s Eve, 146
Newhouse Tunnel, 249
Newmont Gold Company, 239
Newspapers, 132–34
Nunn, Lucien, 169–70
Oakes, D. C., 18, 23
Onate, Juan de, 2
Open pit mine, 254
Ophir, 165
Orchard, Harry, 199
Ore train, 252
Orman, James, 194
Oro City #1, 51, 68, 100
Oro City #2, 68–69, 100–101
Ouray County, 117, 126, 148, 165, 193, 203
Paddock, Annie, 141
Palmer, William Jackson, 86–87
Patterson, E.H.N., 22
Paul, Rodman, 108–109
Peabody, James, 195, 196, 198
Pearce, Richard, 96
Pike, Zebulon, 4
Pike’s Peak Rush, 14, 16–17, 21
Pitkin, Frederick, 111
Pitkin County, 120
Pitman, Key, 211–12
“Poor Man’s Diggings,” 36
Populist Party, 153–54, 163–64
Portland Mine, 160
Post, Charles, 22
Printer Boy Mine, 68
“Process Mania,” 69–70
Prospectors, 57, 152, 186, 187
Prostitution, 31–32, 136–37
Prunes the Burro, 230
Public Works Administration, 213
Purcell, James, 4
Quartz Mill. See Stamp Mills
“Ragged Ass Mine,” 93
Railroads, 75–76, 85–86, 87, 114–15, 122
abandonment, 146, 169. See also individual lines by name
Raymond, Rossiter, 88, 96, 222, 227
Colorado mining, 80, 90–91
environment, 74–75
litigation, 83
mining problems, 67–68, 69–70
railroads, 86
Red Arrow Mine, 216
Red Mountain, 117, 118, 256
Red-Light District, 136, 137, 138
Revett, Ben Stanley, 167
Rice, George, 189–90
Richardson, Albert, 22, 24
Rickard, T. A., 165, 191
Rico, 92, 99, 117, 203
Rio Grande South Railroad, 115
Rivera, Juan, 3
Roads, 147
Robert E. Lee Mine, 104
Roberts, George, 105
Robinson, George, 111
Rogers, James Grafton, 228
Roosevelt, Franklin, 209
Rosita. See Silver Cliff
Routt, John, 102, 104
Russell, Charles, 260, 261
Russell, William “Green,” 12, 13, 33
Russell Party, 11–12, 13, 15
St. Charles, 15, 16
St. Elmo, 136
St. Louis, Missouri, 7–8
St. Louis Refining and Smelting Company, 102
Saloons, 134, 137
San Juan County, 117
San Juans, 53, 76, 84–85, 165, 203–204
San Miguel County, 117, 165, 166, 169, 193, 195, 196, 203
Sand Creek, 64
Sanford, Mollie, 138
Santa Fe Trail, 9
Saratoga Mine, 182
Sayre, Hal, 38–39
Schools, 141–42
Scott, Walter, 190
“Secondary Enrichment,” 54–55
Service, Robert, 168, 205–206
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 152–53, 158
Silicosis, 192
Silver, 41, 59, 97–98
1860s, 64–65, 66, 67
Oro City #2, 101–102
price, 113, 142–44, 220–21. See also Caribou
Georgetown
Leadville
San Juans
Silver Cliff, 84, 97
Silver Issue, 122–23, 125–26
Silver Plume, 250
Silver Purchase Act (1934), 212
Silverton, 114, 117, 217, 239
tourism, 242
Sluices, 175
Smelters, 91, 109, 168–69, 188, 205
Smuggler Union Mine, 246
Snow, 253
South Park City, 243
Spanish, 1, 2, 3
Spence, Clark, 89–90
Stamp Mills, 35, 37, 55–56
Standard Metals Company, 232–33, 241, 242
Stevens Mine, 88–89, 215–16
Stewart, William, 74
Stewart Mine, 98
Stratton, Winfield Scott, 159–60, 196–97
Strong Mine, 185
Summitville, 98–99, 237–39
Sunnyside Mine, 232–33
Sunshine, 84
Swansea, Wales, 73
Swickhimer, David, 118
Tabor, Augusta, 100, 102, 262
California Gulch, 51
Paynes’ Bar, 37
Tabor, Horace, 37, 51, 100, 104, 120, 260, 261–62
Leadville, 102–103
silver issue, 125
Tarryall, 40
Taylor, James, 69
Teller, Henry, 124–25
silver issue, 154–55, 158
Teller County, 170, 196, 199, 214–15
Telluride, 135, 165, 203
labor strikes, 194–96, 199–200
Tenth Legion Mine, 58
Terrible Mine, 83
“Tommy Knockers,” 90
Tourism, 146, 207, 221, 241–43
Town government, 134–36
Trams, 165–66
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 61, 93–94, 105, 245–46
Union Pacific Railroad, 115
United States Geological Survey, 108
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” 261
Urbanization, 15, 24, 26, 31, 130–31
camps, 132
towns, 131–32. See also individual communities by name
Utes, 2, 53, 58, 76, 85,
98
Villard, Henry, 24
Waite, Davis, 154, 161
Walsh, Thomas, 165
Ward, 135
Warman, Cy, 152
Washington Gulch, 57–58
Water, 118
district laws, 31, 32–33
shortage 38, 42–43; 56. See also Environment
Wells, Bulkeley, 194, 195–96
Western Federation of Miners, 160–62, 163, 193, 196, 197, 199. See also Cripple Creek
Mining
Telluride
Wetherbee, John, 61
Wickersham, Henry, 22, 23
Womack, Bob, 158–59
Women, 48, 137–38
business, 134
church, 143
life, 140, 141
miners, 236–37, 252, 255
rights, 31
role, 144–45
suffrage, 141
teachers, 141, 142
Women In Mining, 236
Wood, Henry, 101
World War I, 204
World War II, 217–19
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