Secure the Shadow: Lachlan McLean, Colorado Mining Photographer

by Duane A. Smith

The jacket is water-stained and has a very large chip out at bottom edge as well as a few tears. I don't think mylar will make it look that much better - but it would help a little. The covers have a very light warp that is only slightly noticeable and could be trained or pressed-out. Along the edge of the blue cloth covers you can see very light browning from the waterstain that goes about 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide and takes close inspection to be seen. There is a previous owners neat first and last name in thin black marker on the front free endpaper. 82 pages illustrating many of the famous photographs.

82 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1980

About the author

Duane Smith received his academic degrees from the University of Colorado and completed his Ph.D. in 1964. That year he began to teach at Fort Lewis College where he is a Professor of Southwest Studies. His areas of research and writing include Colorado history, Civil War history, mining history, urban history and baseball history. He is an extremely popular professor at Fort Lewis, and he is the author of over thirty books on a variety of subjects including Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier; A Colorado History; Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend; Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou Colorado; Colorado Mining: A Photographic History; Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-niner; Rocky Mountain Boom Town: A History of Durango; A Land Alone: Colorado’s Western Slope; Song of the Hammer and Drill: The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914; Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980; Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries; The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective; and Sacred Trust: The Birth and Development of Fort Lewis College.