Black Gold on the Western Frontier

Black Gold on the Western Frontier The land Spanish explorers called “Colorado” was an untamed wilderness in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet following close on the heels of western trailblazers came pioneers of a different sort determined to tame the Wild West. They brought economic advancement to a region deemed worthless by their contemporaries, and no other sector of the frontier economy played a more pivotal role in this development than the mining industry. Colorado, in fact, was b