Lake City

by Duane Vandenbusche, Grant Houston

Overview

Located 8,671 feet in the clouds, Lake City sits on the edge of the beautiful San Juan Mountains on Colorado's Western Slope. Between Lake City and Silverton, 28 miles away, are towering 14,000-foot mountains with three nearly 13,000-foot-high passes and scenery that takes one's breath away. Lake City began as a booming gold and silver camp, complete with a narrow-gauge railroad, 4,000 residents, a smelter, and rich investors looking for their El Dorado. Today, the beautiful little town, tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, is a haven for the many tourists who come to hike, ski, fish, climb, and relax in the quaint Shangri-La of Colorado.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467102742
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/08/2019
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Duane Vandenbusche has been a professor of history at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison since 1962 and is the longest-serving university faculty member in Colorado history. He is the author of 11 books on the Gunnison country and Western Colorado. A lifelong Lake City resident, author Grant Houston cofounded Hinsdale County Historical Society in 1973 and was among loyal history buffs who established Lake City's first museum, Hinsdale County Museum, in 1975. He has owned and edited the weekly Lake City Silver World newspaper since its founding in 1978. He is the author of a number of books on various aspects of Lake City history, the first of which, Lake City Reflections, was published in 1976.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Metropolis of the San Juan 9

2 The Early Years 25

3 Henson Creek 35

4 Lake Fork of the Gunnison River 47

5 Lake City Railroad 59

6 Surrounding Camps 69

7 Ain't We Got Fun? 81

8 Potpourri 93

9 Lake City Memories 105

10 Modern Mecca 119

Bibliography 127