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The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes

by Phyllis Flanders Dorset

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For forty years they flooded Colorado--gold diggers, silver miners, outlaws, gamblers, and pioneers--looking for another Golden Fleece. Colorado comes alive in this classic overview of the gold and silver rushes, where fortunes were won and lost. Phyllis Flanders Dorset has re-created a lusty frontier scenario of one of the most exciting chapters in American history. Crammed with colorful characters and unforgettable incidents, The New Eldorado races through lawless, thrilling, turn-of-the-century Colorado with the fascination of a novel and fidelity of scholarly history. Phyllis Flanders Dorset is a freelance technical editor and the author of Historic Ships Afloat.… (more)
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For forty years they flooded Colorado--gold diggers, silver miners, outlaws, gamblers, and pioneers--looking for another Golden Fleece. Colorado comes alive in this classic overview of the gold and silver rushes, where fortunes were won and lost. Phyllis Flanders Dorset has re-created a lusty frontier scenario of one of the most exciting chapters in American history. Crammed with colorful characters and unforgettable incidents, The New Eldorado races through lawless, thrilling, turn-of-the-century Colorado with the fascination of a novel and fidelity of scholarly history. Phyllis Flanders Dorset is a freelance technical editor and the author of Historic Ships Afloat.

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Phyllis Flanders Dorset chronicles the rise and fall of Colorado's gold and silver mines over a forty year period, concentrating on mining camps at Leadville, Cripple Creek, and Central City. Colorado, in all its lead-slinging glory, comes alive in 'The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes,' where fortunes were waiting to be won or lost.
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