The Once and Future Silver Queen of the Rockies : Georgetown, Colorado, and the Fight for Survival into the Twentieth Century /

"The life of Georgetown, Colorado, after the turn of the twentieth century as mining in Clear Creek County steadily declined and ultimately collapsed. Tourism, skiing, and historic preservation replaced mineral extraction and contributed to Georgetown's survival, and ultimate flourishing,...

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Autores principales: Bradley, Christine A. (Christine Ann), 1952- (Autor), Smith, Duane A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tourism.
Silver mines and mining.
Historic preservation.
Gold mines and mining.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Historic preservation > Colorado > Georgetown.
Tourism > Colorado > Georgetown.
Gold mines and mining > Colorado > Georgetown > History > Pictorial works.
Silver mines and mining > Colorado > Georgetown > History > Pictorial works.
Colorado > Georgetown.
Georgetown (Colo.) > History > 20th century.
Georgetown (Colo.) > History > 19th century.
Pictorial works.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Days of hope, years of despair : photo essay 1 : Georgetown at the turn of the century
  • All dressed up with no place to go : photo essay 2 : the photography of Lewis Clark Coggshall
  • The dowager Silver Queen : photo essay 3 : the years leading up to the First World War
  • Mining what the mountain has to offer : photo essay 4 : mining in and around Georgetown and Silver Plume
  • Long evening into night : photo essay 5 : trains, trams, and tourists
  • 1917 : photo essay 6 : Georgetown 1917-1929
  • They roared and they sputtered : photo essay 7 : the 1930s and 1940s
  • Times are getting' hard boys, money's getting' scarce : photo essay 8 : the office of war information documents the town
  • Georgetown goes to war : photo essay 9 : life returns to normal after the war
  • Into a new era : photo essay 10 : modern times and new adventures
  • A turn toward growth : photo essay 11 : tourists return to the valley
  • Epilogue : the once and future Silver Queen.

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