Timberline Tailings Tales of Colorado's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Chicago: The Sage Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Hard cover. Small quarto. [x] 337pp. SIGNED by author with a gift inscription on dedication page. Second inscription of ffep passing the book on to a new owner. Written request to keep the book in the family written on back dust flap. Muriel Sibell Wolle arrived in Colorado in 1926. Long before most people thought about historic preservation, she sketched Colorado mining towns to create a pictorial record of their often-decaying buildings before many of them disappeared. The tales in this book are gleaned from original pioneers and their families. (Inventory #: 736)