Duane A. Smith

Author of Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier

52+ Works 294 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Duane A. Smith is author A Colorado History, Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend, Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado, Colorado Mining: A Photographic History, and Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-Niner.

Includes the name: Duane A. Smith

Works by Duane A. Smith

Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries (Development of Western Resources) (1988) 27 copies

Mining America: The Industry and Environment, 1800-1980 (1987) 16 copies

Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango, Colorado (1980) 16 copies

The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009 (Timberline Books) (2009) 14 copies

Rocky Mountain West: Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, 1859-1915 (Histories of the American Frontier) (1992) 12 copies

The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective (1989) 11 copies

Colorado mining : a photographic history (1977) 10 copies

Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend (1973) 10 copies

Song of the hammer and drill: The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914 (1982) 9 copies

Mesa Verde National Park (CO) (Images of America) (2009) 9 copies

Women to the Rescue: Creating Mesa Verde National Park (Mesa Verde Centennial) (2005) 8 copies

A Visit With the Tomboy Bride: Harriet Backus & Her Friends (2003) 8 copies

Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition (Mining the American West) (1974) 7 copies

San Juan Gold: A Mining Engineer's Adventures, 1879-1881 (2002) 7 copies

Guide to Historic Durango & Silverton (Cordillera Press Historic Mining District Series) (1988) 6 copies

They Came to Play: A Photographic History of Colorado Baseball (1997) 6 copies

San Juan Legacy: Life in the Mining Camps (2009) 6 copies

A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891 (2006) 5 copies

Journal of the West Japanese Relocation in the American West (Journal of the West Illustrated Quarterly Magazine) (1999) 5 copies

A Brief History of Silverton (2004) 5 copies

A land alone, Colorado's western slope (1981) 5 copies

Rocky Mountain Heartland (Modern American West) (2008) 4 copies

The Ballad of Baby Doe: I Shall Walk Beside My Love (2002) 4 copies

Sisters in Sin - the Nellie Spencer Story (2011) 4 copies

San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado's Mining Legacy (2006) 4 copies

Silverton: A Quick History (1997) 4 copies

Henry M. Teller: Colorado's Grand Old Man (2002) 3 copies

Seasons of the Narrow Gauge: A Year in the Life of the Durango & Silverton (2011) 3 copies

Colorado: Our Colorful State (1999) 3 copies

Rocky Mountain Mining Camps. 2 copies

Durango Diary (1996) 2 copies

Colorado Goes to the Fair: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (2011) 2 copies

A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and a Farming Community in the 1890s (1997) 2 copies

No One Ailing Except a Physician: Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919 (2001) 2 copies

Staking a claim in history : the Evolution of Homestake Mining Company 2 copies

Sacred trust : the birth and development of Fort Lewis College (1991) 2 copies

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge: A Quick History (1998) 2 copies

Travels and travails : tourism at Mesa Verde (2005) 2 copies

Crested Butte: From Coal Camp to Ski Town (2005) 2 copies

The Irrepressible David F. Day (2010) 1 copy

Guide to Historic Durange & Silverton 1 copy

Natural resources in Colorado and Wyoming (1982) 1 copy

Comparison of visual estimation of blood loss vs. actual blood loss and clinical specialty 1 copy

When coal was king : a history of Crested Butte, Colorado, 1880-1952 (1984) 1 copy

"Ho for the San Juans": A Brief Glimpse of the Mining Camps 1 copy

Gold, Silver and the Red Man (1966) 1 copy

The Man Who Owned Charley (1993) 1 copy

a pictorial history of durango (1988) 1 copy

Secure the Shadow: Lachlan McLean, Colorado Mining Photographer (1980) 1 copy

Sagebrush metropolis: Durango, 1880-1881 (1977) 1 copy

Journal Of The west Vol. 48 No. 4 1 copy

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Associated Works

Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 1978 - Views of Utah Women (1978) — Contributor — 1 copy

Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 65, No. 2, Spring 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Gender: male
Places of residence: Durango, Colorado, USA
Organizations: Fort Lewis College

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Mining America : the industry and the environment,… by Duane A. Smith

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SMELibrary | Sep 9, 2016 |

When coal was king : a history of Crested Butte,… by Duane A. Smith

Well written book on an area of Colorado that doesn't get a lot of coverage. I wasn't aware that both antricite and bituminous coal was available. One gets a good understanding of how a place like this grew and then almost disappeared One gets a good feel for how a company town in the west operated.

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ulmannc | Aug 15, 2015 |

The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado,… by Duane A. Smith

"The railroad/mining connection was a marriage of necessity, not always love. Each needed and depended on the other, even though they often had complaints and concerns. This is a comprehensive history of the gold and silver mining industries written one hundred and fifty years after the Colorado gold rush."

This important Colorado historian covers elements that collided with and influenced the mining industry such as government, land rights, machine innovations, railroads, politics, and urbanization. It is an important part of Colorado’s past and a well documented account.… (more)

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