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COLORADO A History in Photographs RICHARD N. ELLIS AND DUANE A. SMITH UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO

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title	:	Colorado : A History in Photographs
author	:	Ellis, Richard N.; Smith, Duane A.
publisher	:	University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin	:	087081219X
print isbn13	:	9780870812194
ebook isbn13	:	9780585021492
language	:	English
subject	Colorado--History--Pictorial works, Colorado--Pictorial works.
publication date	:	1991
lcc	:	F777.E45 1991eb
ddc	:	978.8
subject	:	Colorado--History--Pictorial works, Colorado--Pictorial works.

Page iv Copyright 1991 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Ellis, Richard N., 1939 Colorado: a history in photographs / Richard N. Ellis and Duane A. Smith. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-87081-219-x (alk. paper). 1. Colorado History Pictorial works. 2. Colorado Description and travel Views. I. Smith, Duane A. II. Title. F777.E45 1991 978.8 dc20 91-34157 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984

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Page vii CONTENTS PROLOGUE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi I. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE (18591890) 3 II. NEVER TO COME BACK TO THEM (18901914) 49 III. A TIME TO BREAK DOWN, AND A TIME TO BUILD UP (19141941) 109 IV. WELCOME TO THE NEW COLORADO (19411970) 163 V. A FUTURE NOT BY DEFAULT, BUT BY DESIGN (1970-1991) 213 INDEX 263

Page viii Reprinted from Kenneth A. Erickson and Albert W. Smith, Atlas of Colorado (Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1985).

Page ix PROLOGUE Colorado Day 1991 one hundred fifteen years have passed since that exciting August 1, 1876, when Colorado became the Centennial State. As a writer from Oro City explained to the readers of the Engineering and Mining Journal in an August 20 letter, We were so elated at the admission of our bright young Territory to the honors of Statehood, that between that event and the celebration of the Centennial Fourth, we had hardly room for a thought of work all July. Only eighteen years earlier, the gold that would lead to the legendary 1859 Pikes Peak gold rush had been discovered. That rush brought permanent settlement to the region. Time seemed compressed to those pioneering Coloradans. Fast-moving developments in the years before statehood gave them the impression that the years were passing more swiftly than they actually were. Oro City had already experienced a placer mining boom and bust, moved its townsite nearer to the hard-rock mines, found itself in the backwash of territorial mining, and now stood on the threshold of an even greater bonanza. Mining camps had been born, died, and had faded into ghost towns. The Civil War had become history: the guns in the states and in this western territory had been silenced. At first, Colorado was hailed as a second California but more recently had found itself disparaged as a territory with little mining potential. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes no longer inhabited the eastern plains, and the Utes found themselves tenuously hanging onto their lands to the west. A generation of Colorad-ans had dreamed, worked, and watched their fortunes rise and fall with those of their adopted home. These were invigorating years that, fortunately for future generations, have been preserved in records and photographs. It is with the latter, photographs, that this volume is preoccupied. Photography was new to Americans when the news of the Pikes Peak gold discoveries infiltrated the states. Even so, publisher

Page x William Byers noted in his Rocky Mountain News, June 11, 1859, that already a Mr. Welch was taking views with the apparatus in and around Denver and Auraria. The camera had come to Colorado with the fifty-niners and ever since has recorded the land, the people, and their lives. Two years later, Byers was encouraging his readers to have a true likeness taken of themselves, their stores, dwellings, mills or stock yards to forward to friends back in the states. For the first time, the average American had the opportunity to seize immortality, or as Byers concluded, secure the shadow, ere the substance perish. Many did just that in the decades that followed, and as a consequence they preserved their Colorado. It was not as convenient or easy in those days to secure the shadow as it is today with high-speed film and cameras that incorporate the most advanced technology of the 1990s. William Henry Jackson, the most renowned and remembered of those early-day photographers, recalled:

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