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Mining towns of southern Colorado / Staci Comden, Victoria Miller, and Sara Szakaly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Comden, Staci., Author.
- Miller, Victoria, 1977- Author.
- Szakaly, Sara., Author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--Colorado--History--Pictorial works.
- Coal miners.
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--History--Pictorial works.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Company towns--Colorado--History--Pictorial works.
- Company towns.
- Mining camps--Colorado--History--Pictorial works.
- Mining camps.
- Colorado--History, Local--Pictorial works.
- Colorado.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Photograph collections.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, maps, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]
- Summary:
- Lesser known than the gold and silver mines of Western lore, Southern Colorado's extensive coal mines fueled the engines for Western industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the numerous companies operating the mines, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was king. With a total of 62 mines, the majority of them in Colorado's Las Animas, Huerfano, and Fremont Counties, CF&I ruled the lives of countless miners in company towns scattered throughout Southern Colorado. Working long hours, often in cramped underground caverns, the workers emerged to families living in lonely mountain landscapes completely provisioned with company homes, stores, schools, and churches. Images of America: Mining Towns of Southern Colorado gives an intimate glimpse into the lives of these pioneer mining families.
- Contents:
- Life in a coal camp
- Primero
- Las Animas County
- Berwind Canyon
- Southern Huerfano County
- Northern Huerfano County
- Fremont County
- The end of an era
- About the Bessemer Historical Society.
- Notes:
- Images from the archives of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
- OCLC:
- 885208581
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