Pioneering in the San Juan: Personal Reminiscences of Work Done in Southwestern Colorado During the "Great San Juan Excitement Hardcover - 1899

Fleming H. Revell, 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1899. Hard cover, 226 pp. No other editions noted. In good condition / NO dust jacket. Tan, blue and white decorated cloth with gold lettering on spine. Bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers with a tiny bit of nicking and fraying to the cloth at the corner tips. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well, with a quarter sized black stain on the back cover and three other smaller stains on the back as well, light rippling to cloth on back, and fading to lettering on spine. Binding is solid. INSCRIBED by author on front free end-paper: "To Rev. Dr. Moore, With the Christian Regards of the Author. Delta Colo. Oct 26/1907" (No signature ) A 1" tear at the bottom of page 17 and a small chip on the back free end-paper. Pages yellowed with age with occasional light spotting and soiling throughout. Includes 19 black and white illustrations. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Mentioned in "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen" ("Contains a chapter on Lawlessness,"). [From Preface] PREFACE This book is an attempt to present, in simple words, the reminiscences of work performed by a Presbyterian missionary, in Southwestern Colorado, during the "Great San Juan Excitement;" with the sincere desire to awaken a deeper interest in Home Missions. "Content to fill a little place, if God be glorified.'' [From page 14] "The Great San Juan Gold Excitement" dates back to 1874, when Enos T. Hotchkiss discovered the mine which bore his name for a number of years. Immediately upon the opening of this property, a rush was made into Lake City. This now famous mine. which lies three miles to the south of Lake City, was practically abandoned when, in 1879， Samuel Wendell relocated the property as the "Golden Fleece," and through Mr. Wendell it found its way into the hands of the present owners.