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Homestake Mine Tragedy Sources

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Homestake Mine Tragedy – January 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine

Sources

Books:

Historic Avalanches in the Northern Front Range and the Central and Northern Mountains of Colorado, by M. Martinelli Jr. and Charles F. Leaf. 1999: Rocky Mountain Research Station.

History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado, by Don and Jean Griswold.

Leadville: Colorado’s Magic City, by Edward Blair. 1980: Pruett, Boulder.

History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado 1881: O.L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago.

Periodicals:

Leadville Carbonate Chronicle/P>

Central City Register Call

Denver Times

Denver Tribune-Republican

Denver Post

Field & Stream

Leadville Herald Democrat

Leadville Herald

Mining Reporter

Original sources:

Leadville city directories, 1879-1885, Lake County Library

Individuals:

Stan Dempsey, mining geologist; chairman and CEO of Royal Gold, Denver.

Phil Panum, librarian in the Western History Department, Denver Public Library

Bob Elder, Leadville resident.

Internet sources:

Colorado Avalanche Information Center:

http://www.caic.state.co.us/US_World_stats/stats.html