Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Prologue 1
5. 1 Pike’s Peak or Bust 11
6. 2 1859: The Year Dreams Became Reality 29
7. 3 1860–1864: “To Everything There is a Season” 47
8. 4 1864–1869: “Good Times a-Comin”—Someday 63
9. 5 1870–1874: Bonanza! “Three Cheers and a Tiger” 79
10. 6 1875–1880: “All Roads Lead to Leadville” 95
11. 7 The Silver Eighties: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times 113
12. 8 “There’ll Be a Hot Time” 129
13. 9 “The Everlasting Love of the Game” 151
14. Photographic Essay: Nineteenth-Century Colorado Mining 173
15. 10 1900–1929: Looking Forward Into Yesterday 187
16. 11 Mucking Through Depression, War, and New Ideas 209
17. 12 Mining on the Docket of Public Opinion: The Environmental Age 227
18. Photographic Essay : Colorado Mining in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 245
19. Epilogue: A Tale Well Told 257
20. Notes 263
21. Bibliographical Essay 273
22. Index 277