San Juan Skyway
PROGRAM
Summary
Program Preview
Video Tape
Credits
HISTORY
Introduction
Million Dollar Highway
The Uncompahgre Utes
Mining in Silverton & Ironton
Mine Worker Strikes
Mesa Verde
References
WAYSIDE EXCURSION
Otto Mears
Chief Ouray
Virginia McClurg
LESSON PLANS
Follow the Road to Riches
Mesa Verde
TRAVEL
Chambers/Visitor Centers
Weather/Road Conditions
Map
RESOURCES
San Juan Skyway Timeline
Test Your Knowledge
America's Byways Timeline
Teacher's Guide


San Juan Skyway

References

Otto Mears
Jocknick, Sidney.
Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado and Campfire Chats with Otto Mears, the Pathfinder, from 1870 to 1883.
Glorietta, New Mexico: Rio Grande Press, 1968.

Kushner, Ervan F.
Otto Mears, His Life and Times: With Notes on the Alfred Packer Case.
Frederick, Colorado: Platte N. Press, 1979.

Williamson, Ruby G.
Otto Mears, Pathfinder of the San Juan: His Family and Friends.
Gunnison, Colorado: B&B Printers, 1981.
Utes
Greager, Howard E.
We Shall Fall as the Leaves.
Norwood, Colorado: H.E. Greager, 1996.

Marsh, Charles S.
People of the Shining Mountains: The Utes of Colorado.
Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1982.

Pettit, Jan.
Utes: The Mountain People.
Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Books, 1990.

Smith, P. David.
Ouray, Chief of the Utes.
Ouray, Colorado: Wayfinder Press, 1986.
Silverton/Ironton
Brown, Robert L.
An Empire of Silver.
Denver: Sundance Publications, 1984.

Cornelius, Temple H.
Sheepherder's Gold.
Denver: Sage Books, 1964.

Kurtz, Kenneth J.
Gold Fever.
Darien, Connecticut: Gold Fever Publishing, 1987.

Marshall, John B.
Golden Treasures of the San Juans.
Denver: Sage Books, 1961.

Monroe, Arthur W.
San Juan Silver.
Grand Junction, Colorado: Grand Junction Sentinel, 1940.
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