Duane A. Smith
Duane A. Smith is professor of history, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. He is also the author of San Juan Gold: A Mining Engineer’s Adventures, 1879-1881.
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No One Ailing Except a Physician
Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
By Duane A. Smith and Ronald C. Brown
University Press of Colorado
No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.
The Song of the Hammer and Drill
The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914
University Press of Colorado
As one of the great mining regions of Colorado and the United States, the San Juan Mountains provide insight into the development of both the industry and the state. First published in 1982, Song of the Hammer and Drill, with the help of more than 100 historical photographs, traces the mining and urban history of the San Juans from 1860-1914 through the lives of the people who opened, settled, and developed the beautiful but rugged mineral-rich peaks of southwestern Colorado.
The Trail of Gold and Silver
Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009
University Press of Colorado
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century.
- Copyright year: 2009
Silver Saga
The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
Revised and updated, Duane A. Smith's classic study of this important silver mining town is back in print.
San Juan Legacy
Life in the Mining Camps
By Duane A. Smith; Photographs by John L. Ninnemann
University of New Mexico Press
Smith and Ninnemann chronicle the early years of the nineteenth century boomtowns in the mountains of western Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2009
Colorado Goes to the Fair
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
University of New Mexico Press
In this heavily illustrated text, the authors trace the glory of the World's Fair and the impact it would have on Colorado, where Gilded Age excess clashed with the enthusiasm of westward expansion.
- Copyright year: 2011
Mesa Verde National Park
Shadows of the Centuries, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
i>Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries</i> is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado.
Colorado
The Highest State, Second Edition
By Thomas J. Noel and Duane A. Smith
University Press of Colorado
Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state's colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining and railroading, and water and oil, Colorado's past is a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. The second edition is the result of a major revision, with updates on all material, two new chapters, and ninety new photos.
San Juan Bonanza
Western Colorado's Mining Legacy
Photographs by John L. Ninnemann; By Duane A. Smith
University of New Mexico Press
A collaborative photo-history of the natural beauty of the narrow-gauge railroads and mountain trails leading to the San Juan Mountains' mining camps, boomtowns, and ghost towns.
- Copyright year: 2006
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