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Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom

Mining among the Clouds: The Mosquito Range and the Origins of Colorado's Silver Boom

Paperback

Technology & Engineering19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0942576403
ISBN13: 9780942576405
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jun 15 2002
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Mining Among the Clouds, Harvey N. Gardiner examines what one reporter dubbed aerial mining - silver mining at such high altitudes that the miners were literally working among the clouds. In the summer of 1871, two prospectors ventured high up Mount Bross in Colorado's Mosquito Range. There they discovered an outcropping of silver ore in blue limestone. An unprecedented find, it set off strike after strike in Park County. Thus began the silver boom that gave rise to Leadville, laying the foundation for Colorado's Silver Decade.

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