Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County

Lost Ghost Towns of Teller County

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Publication Date: 6th June 2016

Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were a... Read More
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Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were a... Read More
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Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.
Details
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Lost
  • Publication Date: 6th June 2016
  • State: Colorado
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781467135122
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the Gold Rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting.--Pikes Peak Bulletin
Author Bio

Jan MacKell Collins has been rambling around the West for most of her life, taking copious notes and photographs of the people, places and events that were integral to shaping the American West. She has been a published author and speaker since 2003, with a devout fondness for the wicked side of history. Collins has been published in such magazines as True West, as well as other local and regional periodicals.

Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Lost
  • Publication Date: 6th June 2016
  • State: Colorado
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781467135122
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the Gold Rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting.--Pikes Peak Bulletin

Jan MacKell Collins has been rambling around the West for most of her life, taking copious notes and photographs of the people, places and events that were integral to shaping the American West. She has been a published author and speaker since 2003, with a devout fondness for the wicked side of history. Collins has been published in such magazines as True West, as well as other local and regional periodicals.