Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition

by Duane A. Smith

Revised and updated, Duane A. Smith's classic study of this important silver mining town is back in print.

"[Smith's] contribution gains stature with the realization that better-known camps such as Virginia City and Tombstone were atypical while the Caribous of the West were probably the norm."
—Western Historical Quarterly

"A complicated tale with much mining and financial crossruffing, which Smith has mastered by his diligent, widespread research."
—Caroline Bancroft, The Colorado Magazine

Silver Saga is Duane A. Smith's classic study of this important silver mining town.

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1974

About the author

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 Durango; A Land Alone: Colorado’s Western Slope; Song of the Hammer and Drill: The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914; Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980; Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries; The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective; and Sacred Trust: The Birth and Development of Fort Lewis College.

Reviews

[Kristopher Larsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little dry with straight forward recitation of facts and statistics, but good general overview of the boom/bust history of Caribou.