San Juan legacy : life in the mining camps / Duane A. Smith ; photographs by John L. Ninnemann
- Author:
- Smith, Duane A.
- Published:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 163 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Ninnemann, John L.
- Contents:
- The Promised Land -- Backbone of the community -- No riding on sidewalks and license those dogs -- Raising hell and a lot of other things -- Transportation revolution -- "Love can't live on heavy bread" -- Youthful days, school days -- Dentists, doctors, disease, and death -- "Shall we gather at the river" or "shall we go straight to hell" -- Age of joiners -- Sin, sex, and leisure time pleasures -- Culture arrives in the San Juans -- "Take me out to the ball game" -- "Remember me as you pass by."
- Subject(s):
- Frontier and pioneer life—San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)
- Miners—San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—Social life and customs—19th century
- Mining camps—San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—History—19th century
- Community life—San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—History—19th century
- Gold mines and mining—San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—History—19th century
- Silver mines and mining—San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—History—19th century
- San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—History, Local
- San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—Social life and customs—19th century
- San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—History—19th century
- San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)—Pictorial works
- ISBN:
- 9780826346506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826346502 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note:
- Includes index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Earth and Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Kenneth & Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment; 2009.
- Endowment Note:
- Kenneth and Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment
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