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