Colorado Mining  A Photographic History, Smith, Duane A., for sale $40.00 

University of New Mexico Press, 1977, ESBN 0-8263-0437-0, 176 pp., 8.5 x 11 
Inches, hardcover with dust jacket.  

"In the 1850s, the first of hundreds of propectors went to Colorado to make 
their fortunes.  They took tents and shovels, enthusiasm and cameras.  Thus, 
mining and photography developed simultaneously in Colorado.  In this history 
of the state's most important industry, Duane Smith combines text and 
photographs to tell the story of Colorado mining from the gold rush of 1859 
to the energy crunch of the 1970's."

Chapters are Pike's Peak or Bust; Growing Pains; The Silver Decade; To 
Capture a Shadow -- A Photographic Essay; We're Number One; Gold to the Rescue, 
The Business Called Mining -- A photographic Essay; "Damn the Owners"; Times 
Change, So Does Mining; Depression, War, and Uranium Fever; Of Men and Machines 
-- A Photographic Essay; One hundred Years and Going Strong; Challenge of the 
Seventies; Yesterday, Today, and Towmorrow. A Bibliographical Essay and index
are included.

Very well illustrated with old photographs.  202 in all.

In very good condition.  Price clipped from dust jacket. No markings in text.  

Location: Duncan, AZ 85534. Phone: 928-359-2654.

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