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Duane A. Smith is author A Colorado History, Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend, Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado, Colorado Mining: A Photographic History, and Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-Niner.

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Werke von Duane A. Smith

A Brief History of Silverton (2004) 5 Exemplare
Silverton: A Quick History (1997) 4 Exemplare
Colorado: Our Colorful State (1999) 3 Exemplare
Durango Diary (1996) 2 Exemplare
The Man Who Owned Charley (1993) 1 Exemplar

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Durango, Colorado, USA
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Fort Lewis College

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Well written book on an area of Colorado that doesn't get a lot of coverage. I wasn't aware that both antricite and bituminous coal was available. One gets a good understanding of how a place like this grew and then almost disappeared One gets a good feel for how a company town in the west operated.
 
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ulmannc | Aug 15, 2015 |
"The railroad/mining connection was a marriage of necessity, not always love. Each needed and depended on the other, even though they often had complaints and concerns.
This is a comprehensive history of the gold and silver mining industries written one hundred and fifty years after the Colorado gold rush."

This important Colorado historian covers elements that collided with and influenced the mining industry such as government, land rights, machine innovations, railroads, politics, and urbanization. It is an important part of Colorado’s past and a well documented account.… (mehr)
 
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