Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots
Copyright 1961 by Caroline Bancroft. Seventh edition, 1973.
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Johnson Publishing Co., Boulder, Colorado.
The Author
D.K.P. 1960
Caroline Bancroft is a third generation Coloradan who began writing her first history for The Denver Post in 1928.
Her long-standing interest in western history was inherited. Her pioneer grandfather, Dr. F. J. Bancroft, was a founder of the Colorado Historical Society and its first president.
His granddaughter has carried on the family tradition. She is the author of the interesting series of Bancroft Booklets, Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor, Famous Aspen, Denver’s Lively Past, Historic Central City, The Brown Palace in Denver, Tabor’s Matchless Mine and Lusty Leadville, Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal, Glenwood’s Early Glamor, Colorado’s Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure, The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown and Colorful Colorado.