THE MINES OF COLORADO

Springfield, Ma.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1867.. vii,450pp. plus handcolored folding map, approximately 17 1/2 x 21, and ads. Original publisher's brown cloth, spine gilt. Cloth soiled, bottom corners stained. Text evenly tanned with some light scattered foxing. Two- inch closed tear to inner edge of folding map. Very good. The first edition under this title, expanded from the author's THE SILVER MINES OF COLORADO, published earlier the same year. Ovando Hollister (1834-92) grew up in Massachusetts before moving west, first to Kansas, then to Colorado. He served in the First Colorado Cavalry during the Civil War, writing about it in his HISTORY OF THE FIRST REGIMENT OF COLORADO VOLUNTEERS (1863). Upon returning from the army, he helped establish the DAILY MINING JOURNAL in Black Hawk, Colorado, serving as the paper's editor, before becoming an editor for the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS.

Written in anticipation of the "approaching completion of the two lines" of the transcontinental railroad, a milestone in the history of Colorado, Hollister's MINES OF COLORADO opens with chapters on the history of mining in the region and proceeds to give descriptions of the climate, geography, specific mines, and agricultural resources for each county: Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, Park, Lake, and Summit. It concludes with chapters on technological processes and improvements in mining, important mining legislation, and the region's geology and agriculture generally.

This copy includes the often-missing "Map of Colorado Territory to accompany Hollisters ‘Mines of Colorado' corrected from the Public Surveys of 1866," published by the Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company in New York. The map depicts sixteen counties and the Indian reservations of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. It shows the locations of coal as well as gold and silver mines.

An extensive guide to Colorado's mines. This is the first copy we have handled to include the map. HOWES H602. SABIN 32557. EBERSTADT 114:236. WYNAR 3308. LINGENFELTER CO:1902. WILCOX, p.61. BRADFORD 2357.