The Griffith Family and the Founding of Georgetown describes two years (1859-1861) in the lives of the Griffiths and how they attempted to tame an isolated wilderness and harvest its mineral riches. A decade before Georgetown came to be known as Colorado's "Silver Queen", George F. Griffith struck gold along South Clear Creek, prompting his family to establish a gold mining settlement there that never yielded the expected bonanza. No strangers to frontier conditions, the family used their expertise as miners, surveyors, ...
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The Griffith Family and the Founding of Georgetown describes two years (1859-1861) in the lives of the Griffiths and how they attempted to tame an isolated wilderness and harvest its mineral riches. A decade before Georgetown came to be known as Colorado's "Silver Queen", George F. Griffith struck gold along South Clear Creek, prompting his family to establish a gold mining settlement there that never yielded the expected bonanza. No strangers to frontier conditions, the family used their expertise as miners, surveyors, land speculators, and lawyers to erect cabins, stake their claims, and survey and lay plans for a new town. From these experiences they prepared a set of laws -- included as an appendix in this book -- that covered nearly every aspect of contemporary mining. While the Griffiths eventually left the settlement because of low gold production and sibling conflict, their legacy lives on in Georgetown's name (after George F. Griffith) and in the early laws they established.
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F in F jacket. Octavo. Bright red boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Tiny black remainder dot on the lower edge of the textblock-pages are otherwise all clean, white, and crisp. 106 pages. Illustrated with some photographs. Aside from the remainder dot, neither this book nor its dust jacket have any discernable flaws. Clean and sharp.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Fine/Fine, as issued. xii, 106 pp., illus. Four years, 1859-1863, in the forming of Georgetown, Colorado's first major silver center.
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