Duane A. Smith

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No One Ailing Except a Physician

Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919

University Press of Colorado

No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.

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The Song of the Hammer and Drill

The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914

University Press of Colorado

As one of the great mining regions of Colorado and the United States, the San Juan Mountains provide insight into the development of both the industry and the state. First published in 1982, Song of the Hammer and Drill, with the help of more than 100 historical photographs, traces the mining and urban history of the San Juans from 1860-1914 through the lives of the people who opened, settled, and developed the beautiful but rugged mineral-rich peaks of southwestern Colorado.

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The Trail of Gold and Silver

Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009

University Press of Colorado

In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Silver Saga

The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado

Revised and updated, Duane A. Smith's classic study of this important silver mining town is back in print.

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San Juan Legacy

Life in the Mining Camps

University of New Mexico Press

Smith and Ninnemann chronicle the early years of the nineteenth century boomtowns in the mountains of western Colorado.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Colorado Goes to the Fair

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

University of New Mexico Press

In this heavily illustrated text, the authors trace the glory of the World's Fair and the impact it would have on Colorado, where Gilded Age excess clashed with the enthusiasm of westward expansion.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Mesa Verde National Park

Shadows of the Centuries, Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado

i>Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries</i> is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado.

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Rocky Mountain Boom Town

A History of Durango, Colorado

University Press of Colorado
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Horace Tabor

His Life and the Legend

University Press of Colorado

Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend is the first biography to give full attention to Tabor's mining, business, and political activities as well as to his matrimonial escapades. It is a careful and detailed portrait of a man so extraordinary that even in his own lifetime the facts were largely obscured behind the legend.

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Mining America

The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980

University Press of Colorado

Mining America is a vivid account of the damage wrought by almost two centuries of mining, but its main focus is on the conflicting attitudes behind the destruction and on society's responses. Veteran author and historian Duane Smith asserts that the marriage of mining and environmental issues was bound to touch America's sensitive pocketbook nerve - but the question now is, are all groups willing to pay the price?

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Colorado

The Highest State, Second Edition

University Press of Colorado

Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state's colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining and railroading, and water and oil, Colorado's past is a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. The second edition is the result of a major revision, with updates on all material, two new chapters, and ninety new photos.

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San Juan Bonanza

Western Colorado's Mining Legacy

University of New Mexico Press

A collaborative photo-history of the natural beauty of the narrow-gauge railroads and mountain trails leading to the San Juan Mountains' mining camps, boomtowns, and ghost towns.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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