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Duane Smith received his academic degrees from the University of Colorado and completed his Ph.D. in 1964. That year he began to teach at Fort Lewis College where he is a Professor of Southwest Studies. His areas of research and writing include Colorado history, Civil War history, mining history, urban history and baseball history. He is an extremely popular professor at Fort Lewis, and he is the author of over thirty books on a variety of subjects including Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier; A Colorado History; Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend; Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado; Colorado Mining: A Photographic History; Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-niner; Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Dur ...more

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A Visit With the Tomboy Bri...

3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Mesa Verde National Park

3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Mesa Verde National Park: S...

3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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The Trail of Gold and Silve...

3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Rocky Mountain Mining Camps...

3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions
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Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions
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Sisters in Sin - the Nellie...

3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012
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Women to the Rescue: Creati...

3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Colorado: A History in Phot...

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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A Brief History of Silverton

3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004
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