The New Eldorado: The Fabulous Story of Colorado's Gold & Silver Rushes

viii, 434 pp. "Forty years of boom and bust with the famous and infamous figures who spent their energies in the hunt for riches. Stories of Bat Masterson, William N. Byers, The "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, heroin of the Titanic, The Legendary Beauty, Baby Doe, and Silver King, H.A.W. Tabor, the tragic and courageous dance hall girl, "Silver Heels," the spectacular multi-millionaire, Meyer Guggenheim, and numerous colorful histories of other gold and silver miners. The rise and fall of such rowdy camps as Central City, Leadville, Creede, Gripple Creek.