Duane A. Smith

About The Author

Duane A. Smith is professor of history, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. He is also the author of San Juan Gold: A Mining Engineer's Adventures, 1879-1881.

Books by Duane A. Smith

San Juan Legacy

Life in the Mining Camps

Photographs by John L. Ninnemann
Smith and Ninnemann chronicle the early years of the nineteenth century boomtowns in the mountains of western Colorado.
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