Irregularly placed tombstones at the old Hillside Cemetery, on Boulder Mountain above Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary gold-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities Physical description

Hillside view above Silverton, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).; Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the C

A Mason's tombstone at Hillside Cemetery, on Boulder Mountain above Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary gold-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities Physical description:. Not

Tombstone in cemetery, Ouray, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer.; Purchase; C

Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, which one swarmed with silver prospectors and prosperous mines that, in the late 1800s, made Silverton a boomtown Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.

Scene in the San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado, along the mostly dirt-and-gravel "Alpine Loop" that, for those in Jeeps and high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles at least, winds up to Ouray, another southern Rocky Mountain mining town Physical description

One of many abandoned mines outside Silverton, the seat of San Juan County and, at 9,313 feet, one of the highest towns in Colorado Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).; Forms part of: Gates Fr

Headstones at Chico Cemetery, a windswept country graveyard near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado Physical description:. Notes: The cemetery was first populated in the 1860s, as white families from war-torn mid-South states moved westward after the Civil W

Remnants of the old Eureka Mine in what is now the ghost town of Gladstone, high above Silverton, Colorado, on the dirt Alpine Loop Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).; Forms part of: Gates Fr