Midas of the Rockies
Biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, Croesus of Cripple Creek
Published on 1. January 1972
Book
Paperback/Softback
347 pages
978-0-8040-0591-3 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Mr. Waters has done a fine piece of work, valuable and distinctly entertaining." "This book will have a real fascination for anyone who loves his Colorado. It is not only a faithful biography of Winfield Scott Stratton...but it details as well a whole history of Colorado mining."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ohio
United States
Publishing group
Ohio University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8040-0591-3 (9780804005913)
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Persons
Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.
Marshall Sprague, an Ohio native and long time Colorado Springs resident, wrote over 18 books on Colorado and western history. Among his many publications is Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold. He died in 1994.
Marshall Sprague, an Ohio native and long time Colorado Springs resident, wrote over 18 books on Colorado and western history. Among his many publications is Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold. He died in 1994.