Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots
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About This Book
Forty-two of Colorado’s romance-packed high country towns have their stories told with old and new photos, history, and maps.
Chapters (99)
- Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots
- The Author
- The Cover
- Personal to the reader
- THE ALICE POST OFFICE STILL STANDS
- ⇐PLAN OF TOURS
- From Central City
- NEVADAVILLE HAD THIRTEEN SALOONS
- CORNISH COTTAGES COVERED THIS SLOPE
- AMERICAN CITY HUGS THE TREES
- KINGSTON IS IN TWO SECTIONS
- From Idaho Springs
- ALICE BOASTED OF ITS GLORY HOLE
- NORTH EMPIRE CLUNG CLOSE TO THE MINES
- THE CONQUEROR’S MINERS LIVED WELL
- From Georgetown
- WALDORF WAS A RAILROAD MINING TOWN
- PRETTY SAINTS JOHN WAS SECLUDED
- From Boulder
- WINDY CARIBOU NEARLY BLEW AWAY
- From Estes Park
- WARD DELIGHTED SUNDAY EXCURSIONISTS
- From Grand Lake
- LULU CITY BECAME A GHOST EVEN BY 1889
- BEAR TRAP
- CHRISTMAS TREES CHOSE CABINS FOR BOXES
- From Steamboat Springs
- HAHNS PEAK COMMEMORATES ITS FOUNDER
- From Glenwood Springs
- FULFORD HAD AN UPPER AND LOWER TOWN
- UPPER FULFORD HAD A STURDY ASSAY OFFICE
- CRYSTAL CITY USED SPARKLING WATER POWER
- From Aspen
- LENADO BEGAN AS A SILVER CAMP
- LENADO’S NAME MEANS “WOODED”
- ASHCROFT WAS A BIGGER TOWN THAN ASPEN
- From Leadville
- INDEPENDENCE LIES BESIDE THE HIGHWAY
- THE “UNSINKABLE” MRS. BROWN LIVED HERE
- From Fairplay
- DID “SILVERHEELS” DANCE HERE IN THE 1860’S?
- RAILROAD GHOSTS HAUNT SOUTH PARK
- THE PARK’S MINING GHOSTS ARE MANY
- From Cripple Creek
- ALTMAN CLAIMED TO BE THE HIGHEST TOWN
- THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT HAS MORE GHOSTS
- From Canon City
- ROSITA’S HANDSOMEST HOUSE LIVED ON
- SILVER CLIFF CHOSE A MAGNIFICENT BACKDROP
- From Salida
- TURRET FACED THE COLLEGIATE RANGE
- BONANZA
- KERBER CREEK IGNORES THE GLORIOUS PAST
- From Buena Vista
- SAINT ELMO HAD A CLIFTON HOTEL
- WINFIELD
- From Gunnison
- TIN CUP’S TOWN HALL LOOKS CHURCHLY
- GOTHIC HAS TURNED FROM MINES TO PLANTS
- From Lake City
- THE GRANDEUR OF CAPITOL CITY IS DUST
- CARSON SNUGGLES AGAINST THE DIVIDE
- From Creede
- BACHELOR WAS FULL OF BRAWLING “BATCHERS”
- MAIN STREET
- REMNANTS
- ODD GRAVE
- SPAR CITY HAS A CHARMING MAIN STREET
- ITS OLD HOTEL AND JAIL ARE CHERISHED
- From Del Norte
- NINETY-YEAR-OLD SUMMITVILLE WON’T DIE
- From Silverton
- THE SUNNYSIDE WAS EUREKA’S MAINSTAY
- EVALYN WALSH McLEAN DID NOT SLEEP HERE
- From Ouray
- THE NATIONAL BELLE MARKS RED MOUNTAIN
- IRONTON WAS THE RAILROAD TERMINUS
- From Telluride
- PANDORA’S SETTING IS SUPERB
- MINING GHOSTS OF THE STORIED SAN JUANS
- L’Envoi
- Acknowledgments
- For Research Aid:
- For Proofreading:
- For Photographs:
- (See back cover for prices) GULCH OF GOLD
- COLORFUL COLORADO: ITS DRAMATIC HISTORY
- SILVER QUEEN: THE FABULOUS STORY OF BABY DOE TABOR
- AUGUSTA TABOR: HER SIDE OF THE SCANDAL
- TABOR’S MATCHLESS MINE AND LUSTY LEADVILLE
- THE UNSINKABLE MRS. BROWN
- FAMOUS ASPEN
- HISTORIC CENTRAL CITY
- DENVER’S LIVELY PAST
- THE BROWN PALACE IN DENVER
- SIX RACY MADAMS OF COLORADO
- COLORADO’S LOST GOLD MINES AND BURIED TREASURE
- ESTES PARK AND GRAND LAKE
- TWO BURROS OF FAIRPLAY
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