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A STORY OF GOLD HILL, COLORADO –
SEVENTY-ODD YEARS IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES
by Mabel Montgomery
Illustrated 37-page booklet
ISBN 0-9617799-1-8 $6.00
Originally published in 1930; reprinted (with a Preface by Silvia Pettem) by The Book Lode, 1998
The booklet is an accurate and well-written account of the development of Colorado's first mining community. The author was born in Gold Hill in 1885. Her father James Guise was a miner, while her mother, Hannah Spaulding Guise, was the town's first schoolteacher.
A STORY OF GOLD HILL also touches on the people and the social history of the town. Included is a fold-out map of the mountains of the Front Range as viewed from Big Horn Mountain.
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