Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots

Copyright 1961 by Caroline Bancroft. Seventh edition, 1973.

All rights in this book are reserved. It may not be used for dramatic, radio,
television, motion or talking picture purposes without written authorization.

Johnson Publishing Co., Boulder, Colorado.

The Author

Caroline Bancroft is athird generation Coloradanwho began writingher first history for TheDenver Post in 1928.

Her long-standing interestin western historywas inherited. Her pioneergrandfather, Dr. F. J.Bancroft, was a founderof the Colorado HistoricalSociety and its first president.

His granddaughter hascarried on the family tradition.She is the authorof the interesting series ofBancroft Booklets, SilverQueen: The FabulousStory of Baby Doe Tabor,Famous Aspen, Denver’sLively Past, Historic CentralCity, The BrownPalace in Denver, Tabor’sMatchless Mine and LustyLeadville, Augusta Tabor:Her Side of the Scandal, Glenwood’s Early Glamor, Colorado’s Lost GoldMines and Buried Treasure, The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown and ColorfulColorado.

A Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, she later obtained a Masterof Arts degree from the University of Denver, writing her thesis on CentralCity, Colorado. Her full-size Gulch of Gold is the definitive history of thatwell-known area, which includes Nevadaville, the scene of the accompanyingphoto. She is shown with Daniel K. Peterson who drew the maps andtook most of the contemporary pictures for the new booklet on ghost towns.

STEPHEN L. R. McNICHOLSGovernor of Colorado1956-1962

The Cover

The Dumont boarding house in North Empire, unique for its ground-level dormerwindows, was built about 1872 for miners working on the Benton lode, owned byJohn M. Dumont. In 1897, with a date still on the wall, it was bought by a Mrs.Bishop who painted the building a purplish blue. She operated it as a boarding houseuntil about 1906 when she took over the Peck House (Hotel Splendide) in Empire.Still later, in the 1930’s, Waldemar Nelson lived in the “Blue House” and used onesection as a machine shop. A forge was still there in 1960. Photo by Dan Peterson.

Personal to the reader

I love the high country of Colorado—and in a less effusivemanner, so does Dan Peterson. Partly for your enjoyment and partlyfor our own, this booklet represents the crystallization of our mutualenthusiasms. We hope that it will serve as a useful guide for you andothers who thrill to the heights and diverse grandeur of our ColoradoRockies.

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