Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Author: Kevin Singel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2018-05-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719553469

Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.

Lost Mines of the Old West

Lost Mines of the Old West
Author: Howard D. Clark
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1789121736

AUTHENTIC STORY OF THE “PEGLEG” AND 21 OTHER STORIES OF FABULOUS LOST MINES! Author Howard D. Clark, a Kansas native, had an extensive career in journalism with appointments including managing editor for the Farm Press Publications of Chicago, Illinois; staff writer for a number of business papers; and statistical and analytical specialist for other periodicals and concerns. This background, plus extensive travel on the Pacific Coast, fitted him particularly well to undertake the writing of this book. Lost mine legends make up a large section of Western folklore. In this collection he has made a sincere effort to present only the most important and best authenticated of them all. He has also had the invaluable assistance of Ray Hetherington, an unquestioned authority in the field of Western Americana. Much of the source material used herein was collected by Mr. Hetherington through thirty years of extensive research. First published in 1946, this collection of lost mine legends is considered among the most complete and factual of any ever assembled.

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806120843

Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom

Ghost Towns of the American West

Ghost Towns of the American West
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2001-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 054756189X

If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.

The Bonanza Trail

The Bonanza Trail
Author: Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 890
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789120519

THIS is the story of the men who sought for gold, from California to the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains. Mrs. Wolle writes colorfully of the unbelievable privations the men endured in penetrating the fastnesses of the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; of the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the Indian-infested Black Hills of South Dakota. It is doubtful if the vividness of this phase of history will ever fade for American readers. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Mrs. Wolle finds her excitement continually renewed, as she stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust and struggle. It is this excitement which she conveys to her readers both in the text and in the more than one hundred on-the-spot drawings which show the towns and town sites with the eye of the nostalgic lover of this picturesque and courageous part of our national heritage. A guide book for the adventurous, THE BONANZA TRAIL will be attractive alike to travelers, American history enthusiasts and collectors of Americana. Nor will its pages soon be forgotten by the general reader. “THE BONANZA TRAIL is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West for which so many students and amateurs of Western Americana have been waiting. Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas....A book that, to the informed intelligence, is almost impossible to put down.”—LUCIUS BEEBE, The Territorial Enterprise

Gold 'N Ghosts!

Gold 'N Ghosts!
Author: Luis Vallecillo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780982848821

They say "When you die you can't take your money with you". Therefore, be thankful for Ghost Towns! There are THOUSANDS of Ghost Towns across America, in fact Nevada has over 600 ghost towns and mining camps, many of which little remains but a few concrete slabs and crumbling rock walls and the state is pockmarked with over 500,000 old mines.This book is the most complete book of its kind, listing Ghost Towns not only by state, but actually giving you the GPS locations of each Ghost Town! Finding lost treasures has never been so easy. Just punch in the coordinates and head off to find your fortune in lost treasure.A ghost town is a completely abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war. For example, most western ghost towns were once mining towns, builtduring the booms that began in California in 1849 and continued into the early twentieth centuryon the promise of profits to be realized from a region's abundant mineral deposits. As mineral strikes slowed, prospectors and those providing them their goods and services such as merchants, saloon owners, bankers, and prostitutes left homes and businesses. Most left, sometimes so abruptly that towns were often left in a state of suspended animation, with displays still standing in shop windows, bottles and glasses on saloon tables, and the shelves of abandoned cabins lined with pieces of crockery. Calamity and natural disaster created Ghost Towns as well. Thousands fled the area and thousands upon thousands, at times died never able retrieve their hidden fortunes. Now you have the information needed to find those caches, where ONE SINGLE coin could bring as much as $7.9 MILLION DOLLARS. For ONE SINGLE COIN!Luis Vallecillo, known on Television as "ORO" in the reality TV series TreasureForce, is TreasureForces' Mission Scientist and is also a Special Expedition Scout and Recon Scout. Not only is Oro a Certified Cacheologists by the Cacheology Society of America, but he is a pilot, engineer and explorer with tremendous expedition experience. Oro has proven to be the Mapping, Tracking and go-to Research source for the World's Foremost Terrestrial Treasure Team and Oro will now put this experience to work for you in teaching you how to spot the clues to find hidden hoards.