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Reprints of early newspaper articles about mining ghost towns.

A 78-page booklet and 60 pages of typescript.

This folder contains Eben Fine's 9-page typescript for a talk on the natural mineral wealth in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Charles Owen Moore was born in 1913; his wife, Virginia Henderson Moore, was born in 1916. In the 1980s their children sat down with them and recorded conversations about their parents' lives, incluing Charles' memories of growing up on a ranch in Boulder County; attending a one-room school until 8th grade; his subsequent education, work in the mining industry and the tire industry; and his service for many years on a school board. Virginia relates details of her childhood in Colorado Springs. They both talk about their years of raising a family and the many trips that they took. Charles Moore later added to the recording, going into more detail about many of the above topics and bringing the listener up-to-date on family matters. The recordings end with Virginia elaborating on various aspects of her childhood years and her years of raising a family.