Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado (signed 7th printing)

WOLLE, Muriel Sibell

Published by Muriel S. Wolle, Boulder, Colorado, 1957

About this Item

Stated 7th printing, February 1957. Signed by author Muriel Sibell Wolle on title page. This hefty work pays tribute to the hard-rock miners of Colorado. Profusely illustrated with views of mine sites and their remnants throughout by the author, professor of Fine Arts at the University of Colorado. With maps to mining camps at endpapers and within this work, which first appeared in 1949. The author begins her first chapter with "I am not a historian nor a writer but an artist gone slightly berserk." --- In tan buckram-covered boards w/decorations and titling in red on cover and spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With a few splotches of whitish soiling to front cover, else a bright, tightly-bound copy lacking interior markings.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; (12), 544 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 87668

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado (signed 7th printing)
• Publisher: Muriel S. Wolle, Boulder, Colorado
• Publication Date: 1957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • >>History of Colorado & the Old West
  • >>Art / Architecture / Fashion