In January 1896, one of the largest new buildings in Colorado opened to the public, and people visited it from all over the state. By the end of March, it ...

Other companies in Colorado are also testing the ... Michael hopes that the Leadville project will show that cleaning up mine waste can yield a profit and encourage others to pursue similar ...

Another account calls the Ice Palace “a Colossus in the Colorado Rockies ... that also foretold Leadville’s tourism future. “Very early on, it was very much a mining town,” Brokaw ...

A 90-foot tall structure, made of over 5,000 tons of ice, once sat atop Capitol Hill in Leadville between West Seventh and West Eighth streets. Intended to bring revenue and ...

Leadville is about 100 miles west of Denver and 160 miles from Fort Collins. This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Free shuttle from historic mining town to Colorado ski ...

In 1878, he left his native Kentucky for the wild mining town of Leadville, Colorado, where he began his legal career in the law office of James T. Marshall. Marshall was president of the Robert E.

Nearly 100 million pounds came from the Leadville district ... are listed and 39 are discussed in the text. The Eagle mine in the Gilman District is probably Colorado’s most prolific producer of ...

A new free weekend shuttle service has launched in Leadville connecting the Colorado mountain town to the popular Ski Cooper ski resort. Operated by the same shuttle service that runs throughout ...

But that vision died when most of Leadville’s miners went on strike in June 1896, seeking better pay. As the strike lingered into fall, the Colorado National Guard was called up to help quell ...