Colorado Gold: From the Pike's Peak Rush to the Present [Paperback]

Stephen M. Voynick (Author)

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Publication Date: May 1, 2002

The early miners who panned for gold in 1858 on the banks of Cherry Creek, where Denver now stands, could not have known how profoundly that precious metal would soon affect the emerging state of Colorado. Their boom soon turned to bust. But subsequent discoveries at Cripple Creek and other places yielded more than enough "color" to coat the dome on Colorado's capitol. Colorado Gold is the story of gold--concealed within the Rockies for ages, affecting the destinies of people and landscapes today. It is a historical account that assesses our enduring, romantic drive to extract this unusually malleable and heavy metal from the earth. Topics include both historic and modern booms and busts, gold's intrinsic value, mining technologies past and present, legends and lore, and a look at tomorrow's gold.

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"In Colorado Gold, Stephen Voynick has created a masterpiece intermingling gold rushes, booms, and busts, with geology and mining technologies, legends, and lore." --True West

About the Author

Stephen M. Voynick has worked as an advertising, industrial, and technical photographer; a marine salvage diver in the Caribbean and South America; and a hardrock miner in Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona. Since 1982 he has worked as a full-time freelance writer. Voynick has written more than five hundred articles, many on topics of mining, mining history, western lore, resource development, and applied science. He is currently a staff writer with Persimmon Hill, the magazine of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. With a lifelong interest in minerals, gemstones, and fossils, he is also a contributing editor and science columnist for Rock & Gem magazine. Voynick lives in Twin Lakes, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company (May 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878424555
• ISBN-13: 978-0878424559
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,793,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Colorado Gold History book I've found, October 16, 2010

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Thomas L. Zebarth (Breckenridge, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Colorado Gold: From the Pike's Peak Rush to the Present (Paperback)

I live in Breckenridge Colorado full time, and have been a student of Colorado gold prospecting and mining history for years. I own and have read many books on the subject, and this is the best I've found. I've driven or hiked to many of the mines and areas mentioned in the book, but Mr. Voynick has probably doubled my "to explore" list - and filled in a lot of the background and rationale on workings I never quite understood just looking at the physical location, tailings, mine and mill remains, and timbers. As a result of this book, I have many more years of high-country 4-wheeling and orienteering before my log book will be complete.