Tales, trails, and tommyknockers stories from Colorado's past /

Presents a potpourri of historical information and legends about Colorado.

Main Author: Friggens, Myriam.
Other Authors: Coulter, Gene.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Johnson Pub. Co., [1979]
Physical Description: 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Cowboys and castles
  • Prunes: the prospector's partner
  • Silver heels in the sky
  • Wild horses in the sand
  • Robbers on Raton Pass
  • A famous peak and a song
  • Baby Doe holds on to the Matchless Mine
  • Bent blows up the fort
  • Little Chief earns his name
  • Engines under the snow
  • Colorado's most daring skier
  • The river of death
  • A lady climbs a mountain
  • Canaries, rats, mules, miners and tommyknockers
  • Stampede!
  • The little engineer who did
  • La caverna del oro (The cave of gold)
  • Colorado's "unsinkable" lady
  • Graveyard of the monsters
  • Ouray meets "Big Chief Hot Stuff"
  • Colorado's gifts to the nation
  • Map
  • Bibliography.