Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879 - 1893

by Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Overview

"[A] fascinating study in the microcosm of the birth, development, and decline of the western mining frontier. [Rohrbough] admirably places the changes within the context of half a century of continuous mining excitement that stretched from Sutter's Mill in California in 1848 to the Klondike in 1898."
-Choice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870815928
Publisher:	University Press of Colorado
Publication date:	10/15/2000
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Malcolm J. Rohrbough is Professor of History at the University of Iowa and the author of The Land-Office Business, The Trans-Appalachian Frontier, and Days of Gold.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] fascinating study in the microcosm of the birth, development, and decline of the western mining frontier. [Rohrbough] admirably places the changes within the context of half a century of continuous mining excitement that stretched from Sutter's Mill in California in 1848 to the Klondike in 1898."
—Choice


"This is a history meticulously researched and excitingly told."
— Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People

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