History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado

From: Montana; The Magazine of Western History | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

From Mountain Solitude to Metropolis, Volumes I and II Don L. and Jean Harvey Griswold

Colorado Historical Society, Denver, in cooperation with the University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1996. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. xx + 2,374 pp. $150.00.

This two-volume history of Leadville, Colorado's largest nineteenth-century silver- producing area, obviously was a major undertaking by two historians well versed in the locale's history. The late Don L. and Jean Harvey Griswold left their fellow Coloradans a very usable legacy that is destined to find a home on public, or ...

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