A Wide-Awake Woman: Josephine Roche in the Era of Reform

The Story

In Mining Among the Clouds, Harvey N. Gardiner examines what one reporter dubbed "aerial" mining - silver mining at such high altitudes that the miners were literally working among the clouds. In the summer of 1871, two prospectors ventured high up Mount Bross in Colorado's Mosquito Range. There they discovered an outcropping of silver ore in blue limestone. An unprecedented find, it set off strike after strike in Park County. Thus began the silver boom that gave rise to Leadville, laying the foundation for Colorado's Silver Decade.

A paperback edition from 2002 of A Wide-Awake Woman by Harvey N. Gardiner. It runs to 200 pages, in fine condition. Stock is limited to the copies on our shelves in Kuwait. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.