Stampede to Timberline

Klappentext

This book includes the story of 240 Colorado's mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. Their story is full of adventurous chances, lucky strikes, boom conditions, reckless spending, banditry, claim jumping, railroad wars and labor troubles.

Zusammenfassung
This book includes the story of 240 of Coloradoâ™s mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. The men who swarmed to the mountains to find precious metal came in successive waves from the late 1850s on, combing the gulches, scrambling over the passes and climbing the peaks.