Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

1) A view of Pike's Peak from Colorado Springs. The photographer, W. E. Hook, has managed to catch a residential street with the Peak in the bac...

1) W. E. Hook, photographer. Back has ad for J. G. Hiestand, collector and dealer in mineral specimens. 2) Unknown artist. Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (

1) "Manitou, Colorado, U. S. A., Its Mineral Waters and Climate". Written by S. Edwin Solly (M. R. C. S., England, L. S. A., London; Fello...

Tan soft cover booklet, with nice vignette of the valley printed in blue and gold (5.5" x 8"), 60 pp. contains a map of the Montezuma Vall...

Group of 2 ribbons, both having a donkey and nugget attached to the ribbon, measuring 21/4" x 71/2" . 1) Green, Third Annual Grand Derby. ...

Lot of twelve. 1) Governor Peabody breast badge. Red, white, and blue bunting. 1903-1904. Colorado City, Cripple Creek, Telluride, and Trinidad. 2) 39

50 Cripple Creek-related checks and drafts: pieces from Cripple Creek, Victor, Goldfield, Golden. Highlights include: a fabulous Jim Blaine Mine check

Very nice pair of mother of pearl opera glasses with well polished brass hardware, faceted mother of pearl shell (2.75" ) La Corona, Paris, eng...

1) "The Story of the World's Greatest Gold Camp. Told in Prose, Poetry, and Pictures the Labor Troubles of 1903/04". Told by the Cripp...

129 pages. All about the Red Men: members, minutes, and tribes (individual councils). City: Cripple Creek State: Colorado, Date: