SILVER REGION SIERRA MOJADA & ROSITA COLORADO TERRITORY Carl Wulsten 1876
SILVER REGION SIERRA MOJADA & ROSITA COLORADO TERRITORY Carl Wulsten 1876

SILVER REGION SIERRA MOJADA & ROSITA COLORADO TERRITORY Carl Wulsten 1876

$7,750.00

THE SILVER REGION OF THE SIERRA MOJADA (Wet

Mountain) AND ROSITA, FREMONT COUNTY,

COLORADO

Its Geography, Topography, Geonsy, and Oryktognosy: natural and

Argentiferous Resources; History, Development and Commerce; Its

Mines and Works; with Topographical Map of the Same.

BY CARL WULSTEN

Description

THE SILVER REGION OF THE SIERRA MOJADA (Wet

Mountain) AND ROSITA, FREMONT COUNTY,

COLORADO

Its Geography, Topography, Geonsy, and Oryktognosy: natural and

Argentiferous Resources; History, Development and Commerce; Its

Mines and Works; with Topographical Map of the Same.

BY CARL WULSTEN

Denver: Tribune Steam Printing House, 1876

First Edition.  Printed light gray wrappers; back wrap appears to

have been expertly replaced.   Dimensions: 5-1/2 inches by 8-5/8

inches; 101 pages

Plus two folding maps:  1) Map of Pueblo, Colorado — Its Railroad

Connections and the Country Tributary (15-1/2 cm x 23-1/2 cm),

tipped in between pgs. 28 & 29; 2) Map of the Silver Region of the

Sierra Mojada and Rosita, “Its Topography, Mines, Town &

Corporation Limits (45-1/2 cm by 61 cm), excellent topographical map

identifying mountains, rivers, roads, mines, millsites, towns, etc.  This

map has been stabilized at hinges with conservation materials.

Very good to very good plus condition.

This superb, and highly scarce, Wulsten publication served as a

prospectus and guide to Rosita and the soon to be known

“Hardscrabble Mining District.”

One original copy known: Western History Department, Denver

Public Library

COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL