Colorado Silver Boom
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The Colorado Silver Boom was a dramatic expansionist period of silver mining activity in the U.S. state of Colorado in the late 19th century. The boom started in 1879 with the discovery of silver at L
The Matchless Mine in Leadville, originally owned by Horace Tabor, known as "The Silver King".
The Amethyst Mine, near Creede, Colorado
Remains of an abandoned mine near Silverton, Colorado, in July 2020
Aspen, Colorado
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Aspen is the home rule city that is the county seat of, and the most populous municipality in, Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,004 at the 2020 United States census. A
Colorado Silver Boom
…early narrow-gauge line to Leadville. Likewise the extension of the railroad network up the Roaring Fork Valley to the previously failed mining town of Aspen in the late 1880s made the extraction of silver ore there economically feasible, and saved the town from near extinction. The government purchases of…
Downtown Aspen (April 2005)
Silver mines in Aspen (1898)
Aspen (1962)
Aspen Art Museum (2015)