Mining Mayhem and Other Carbonate Excitements: Tales From A Silver Camp Called Leadville
Mining Mayhem and Other Carbonate Excitements is a bewitching collection of tales about the lesser-known places and personalities that made Leadville the state’s premier mining town in the 1880s. It is a tribute to the thousands of unknown dead that lie unmarked and unlamented in its cemeteries.
This volume looks closely at the drama that took place daily in the mines, streets and back rooms of the West’s greatest carbonate camp. It also provides self-guided historical tours of its cemeteries and the Mineral Belt Trail, one of Colorado’s premier hiking and cycling paths.
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Lost Between Heaven and Leadville: Specters, Spooks, and Shades of the Departed in a Colorado Silver Camp
Ghosts lurking in mines, along abandoned railroad grades, in atmospheric graveyards and atop the windswept heights of Mosquito Pass are resurrected on the pages of Lost Between Heaven and Leadville. It is a chilling and sometimes humorous look at the phantoms and their otherworldly mischief that were so common in Leadville during the Victorian Era.
With this book as a guide, today’s visitor to the Cloud City can enjoy atmospheric visits to haunts such as State Street (West Second), The Boulevard, Oro City and the Mikado and Moyer mines. Here, many former residents met a sudden and emotional demise and their restless souls returned to set things right. This volume is required reading for anyone with a love of Leadville history or a “spiritual” interest in the uncanny side of Colorado’s Carbonate Camp.