| Midas of the Rockies: Biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, Croesus of Cripple Creek Contributor(s): Waters, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804005915 ISBN-13: 9780804005913 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $27.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1972 Annotation: This reprint makes available again Frank Walter's dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pikes Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional history, Midas Of The Rockies is a story so fabulously impossible and yet so painfully true that it commends itself to the whole of America, the only earth, the only people who could have created it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 73163716 |
| Series: Story of Stratton and Cripple Creek |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.51" W x 8.53" (0.94 lbs) 347 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Colorado |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This reprint makes available again Frank Waters' dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pike's Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional history, Midas of the Rockies is a story so fabulously impossible and yet so painfully true that it commends itself to the whole of America, the only earth, the only people who could have created it. |