Many More Mountains (Volume 2): Ruts into Silverton by Allen Nossaman - 1993: An illustrated history of the earliest exploration in the high San Juans of southwestern Colorado and the settlement and founding of Silverton, Colorado

~~PERSONAL INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR DATED 1994 ON TITLE PAGE~~

Denver, CO: Sundance Books (Stated 1st Printing, June 1993). Two-tone quarter cloth and color pictorial paper over boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in white on the front cover, in original-issue clear plastic jacket, 352 pages (11"x 8.75"x1", 4 lb.) Preface, acknowledgements, double column, illustrated (some in color), portraits, plates, tables, maps, index. Volume 2 (1993) only of 3-volume series (Vol. 1, 1989, Vol. 3, 1998). Totally clean and unmarked, with crisp, white pages; binding square and tight. A beautiful copy.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Volume 2 in this sweeping history of the exploration of the San Juan Mountains and the founding of Silverton. This volume begins in 1876 and covers the years immediately following Coroado's admission to statehood, the formation of San Juan County and the incorporation of Silverton. The author paints a detailed portrait of the communities and isolated miners, building up a layered picture of settlement, resource extraction and transportation in one of the country's most isolated areas. Covers the county's first smelters, the Lime Creek Burn, the first flurry of fatal avalanches, the approach of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, and the founding of Animas Forks and Gladstone.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Allen Nossaman ( 1939-2006) purchased the Silverton Standard and the Miner in 1963, and he continued to edit it until 1972. In successive years he was also a judge and janitor, county planner and railroad agent. As well, he was an ambulance driver and bass-drum player in the local brass band, among other positions. But it was history for which he will best be remembered. While still publishing the newspaper, he decided that Silverton's past had been "reduced to generalities," and set out to correct that deficiency, explains the Durango Herald. He subsequently chronicled everything about Silverton, from its miners to its haberdashers, and from its snowslides to its strawberries, all with precise and unerring detail in a three-volume set of "Many More Mountains." Nossaman, said Duane Smith, a historian from Durango, was the "Homer of the San Juans. He was working on Volume 4 of "Many More Mountains" at the time of his death. (Vail Daily)