Pike’s Peak
«“…An eloquent, impressive job, an old-fashioned kind of novel about real people, without gimmicks or false dramatics, and with a great deal of fascinating mining lore.”»
During the fabulous reign of Colorado Silver, innumerable prospectors passed by Pike's Peak on their way to the silver strikes at Leadville, Aspen, and the boom camps in the Saguache, Sangre de Cristo, and San Juan mountain. Les mer
Arriving in Colorado Springs in the 1870s, Rogier becomes a successful contractor and builder and helps to raise a little mountain town into the Saratoga of the west. He rears a large family and scoffs at the \u201calfalfa miners\u201d chasing silver strikes everywhere. But with the discovery of gold at nearby Cripple Creek, Rogier is shaken and methodically squanders his prosperous business and all his property attempting to reach the \u201cgreat gold heart\u201d of Pike's Peak.
Waters' is a psychologically modern novel whose universal theme is expressed on the grand scale of the opening of a territory. It is both a marvelously colorful and detailed account of the days when Colorado boomed and Denver became a big town, and an allegory of one man's furious pursuit of the truth within himself.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Swallow Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 751
- ISBN
- 9780804005036
- Utgivelsesår
- 1987
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«“…An eloquent, impressive job, an old-fashioned kind of novel about real people, without gimmicks or false dramatics, and with a great deal of fascinating mining lore.”»