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Selected Southwest Colorado pages from a book in Collection M 005:
Mining records and printed materials:

Mines and mining men of Colorado, historical, descriptive and pictorial; an account of the principal producing mines of gold and silver, the bonanza kings and successful prospectors, the picturesque camps and thriving cities of the Rocky Mountain region,
by John G. Canfield (Denver, Colo., 1893)

Year this booklet was published: 1893. 
Donated to the Center of Southwest Studies by G. P. Morgan, May 1965 (accession 1965:05004).
Digital images created: January 2008.

 © 2008  by Fort Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account
 


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For further reading:  The entire original book (housed in collection M 005) is available for use in the Delaney Southwest Research Library in the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College: oversize TN24.C6 C3  (118 pages, illustrated, book dimensions 26 x 36 cm.)


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Digital imaging by Elizabeth de Jong; web presentation by Todd Ellison, Center of Southwest Studies, January 2008.


Doing your own research:  This description of a portion of the collections at the Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies is provided to inform interested parties about the nature and depth of the repository's collections.  It cannot serve as a substitute for a visit to the repository for those with substantial research interests in the collections.

These collections are located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College.  Interested researchers should phone the archivist at 970/247-7126 or send electronic mail to the archivist at: archives@fortlewis.edu.   Click here to use our E-mail Reference Request Form.  The Center does not have a budget for outgoing long-distance phone calls to answer reference requests, so please leave an email address if you wish to receive a response from us.


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Page revised: January 09, 2008