The mines of Colorado
Features
Author: Ovando J. Hollister
Publisher: Samuel Bowles & Company
Place of printing: Springfield
Year of publication: 1867
Product Condition:
Textile editorial binding with title and gold friezes on the spine, in fair condition: small light spots on the back plate, slightly dented headphones. Internal papers blued and with scattered blooms; an important gora of humidity affects the upper internal corner of all the cards, while a much less extensive and evident gora is found along the lower edge visible up to about page 100
Pages: (6),VII,(3),450,(10)
Format: In the sixteenth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 19
Width: 13
Description
Very rare first edition of this American classic on the mining history of Colorado, illustrated with a beautiful multiplied (56 x 43 cm) and colored map entitled: "Map of Colorado Territory to Accompany Hollister's" Mines of Colorado corrected from the Public Surveys of 1866 "Written close to the events described, this volume introduces us to the atmosphere of the discovery of gold at Ralston Creek and Dry Creek in 1850 and to the great gold rush at Pike's Peak, a period of feverish prospecting for gold deposits just a few kilometers away. north of the mountain, between July 1858 and February 1861, which would have involved more than 100,000 prospectors. After the discovery phase follows a description of the construction of the first mines. The book then describes the adventure of the first wave of prospectors and miners . settling in Colorado came and crossed the Great Plains Text preceded and followed by an 18-page advertising city of railways, banks ...
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