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Mining

Staci Comden, Victoria Miller, Sara Szakaly
Current price: $24.99
Lesser known than the gold and silver mines of Western lore, Southern Colorado's extensive coal mines fueled the engines for Western industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the numerous companies operating the mines, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was king. Wit ... Read More about
Robert D. Leonard Jr, Ken Hallenbeck, Adna G. Wilde Jr
Current price: $21.99
At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal Referendum souvenir medal coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William Jennings Bry ... Read More about