Thomas F Walsh

Contents Foreword by Duane A. Smith Acknowledgments Introduction: In Search of Tom Walsh Chapter 1: Origins in Ireland; A Childhood with Few Advantages; Education and Training; Thoughts of Leaving Chapter 2: To America and the West; A Supportive Family in Worcester; Railroads and Gold in Colorado Territory; Poet, Reporter, Carpenter, and Miner in the Black Hills; A Learning Experience Chapter 3: Life in the Silver Boomtown of Leadville; Proprietor of the Grand Hotel; Marriage Presents a Religious Dilemma; Social Strata of a Frontier Town; Full-Time Mining Chapter 4: Denver, Smelting, and the Silver Crash; Promoter, Investor, and Family Man; Smelting in the Ten Mile District; The Silver Crash Brings Economic Devastation Chapter 5: A Bonanza in the Snowy San Juans; Removing the Ute Indians; The Town of Ouray and the Imogene Basin; A Troubled Start for Walsh in Ouray; Daughter, I've Struck It Rich Chapter 6: The Fabulous Camp Bird Mine; A Mine Named for a Gray Jay; A New Mill and a Long Aerial Tramway; The Greatest Gold Mine in the World; A Rags-to-Riches Myth Chapter 7: Walsh on Labor; Caring for a Diverse Workforce; An Island in a Stormy Sea of Strikes; Ideas Unlike Those of Many of His Peers; Labor on Walsh Chapter 8: What to Do with Millions of Dollars; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh Invite You to Be Their Guest; Move to Washington; Entering the Most Exclusive Ranks of Polite Society; A Candidate for Higher Office Chapter 9: A Prominent Member of National Society; The Greatest American in Paris; Promoter of the West; The President's Mining Adviser; A Spokesman for Progressive Ideas Chapter 10: The Price of Affluence; Keeping Blackmailers at Bay; Betrayal by an Old Friend Chapter 11: The Walsh Palace; Expectation for Conspicuous Consumption; Famous Neighbors; Entertaining the Elite in a Legendary Mansion Chapter 12: A King for a Friend; A Personal Empire in Africa; To Be a King's Partner Chapter 13: Selling the Camp Bird Mine; Advice of a Famous Engineer; Investing a Fortune Chapter 14: Death, and a Return to Colorado; Vinson; Wolhurst Becomes Clonmel; A Senator for the Common Man? Chapter 15: Family and Country; A Honeymoon to Remember; Remembering Family on Both Sides of the Atlantic; A Public-Spirited Citizen and Patron Chapter 16: The Passing of Thomas F. Walsh; The Golden Cradle; Last Illness; He Had Oppressed Not One Single Soul in the Attainment; Would He Remember Colorado? Chapter 17: The Walsh Family and the Walsh Mine; Carrie; Evalyn, Ned, and a Large Blue Diamond; The Camp Bird after Walsh Conclusion: The Legacy of Thomas F. Walsh Appendix A: Glossary of Mining Terms Appendix B: Geology of the Camp Bird Mine Appendix C: Walsh Family Tree Notes Bibliography Index