An edition of Albert Eugene Reynolds (1995)

Albert Eugene Reynolds

Colorado's mining king

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H. Lee Scamehorn
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An edition of Albert Eugene Reynolds (1995)

Albert Eugene Reynolds

Colorado's mining king

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Albert Eugene Reynolds was the embodiment of the American dream: a young man from a modest home in the East, he made a fortune in the West of the late nineteenth century. Intelligence, industry, and luck assured his success as a military sutler, Indian trader, overland freighter, and cattle rancher, and as the owner and operator of silver and gold mines.

Reynolds lived a quiet life and shunned publicity. His remarkable exploits were generally unknown outside a close circle of friends and associates in his lifetime, and he has been virtually unknown since his death. In this biography, based on newly available personal and business papers, Lee Scamehorn demonstrates the conspicuous role Reynolds played in the settlement and development of the American West.

Unlike most of his wealthy contemporaries, Reynolds never lost faith in mining and did not use his profits to launch a new career in banking, transportation, or real-estate development. Through more than four decades, from 1879 until his death in 1921, he struggled against financial difficulties and continued to work in Colorado's mining industry. Reynolds's activities, and those of his successors, reveal the causes and consequences of hard-rock mining's decline in the twentieth century.

Scamehorn's somber conclusion clearly demonstrates what happens to the American dream when it collides with reality.

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English
Pages
308

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Albert Eugene Reynolds: Colorado's mining king
1995, University of Oklahoma Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-289) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
978.8/03/092, B
Library of Congress
F781.R49 S23 1995, F781.R49S23 1995

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Pagination
xix, 308 p. :
Number of pages
308

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Open Library
OL783208M
ISBN 10
0806127678
LCCN
95015206
OCLC/WorldCat
32311790
Library Thing
7843259
Goodreads
3539488

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