This is Summit County

Before the rush began: the rocks that made the Rockies...first footfalls...the skin game

The Ute Indians: dwellers of the turquoise sky

Breckenridge: Colorado's first Western Slope community

Montezuma: no flash in the pan

Dillon: Summit's historic crossroads

Frisco: from Silver City to home town

Silverthorne: placers and promise

Mining: the pick, pan and blasting powder route to riches

Breckenridge mining: gulches of gold

Ten mile mining: storied Silver Canyon

Montezuma mining: treasure atop the Rockies

Then and now: a photographic perspective

Summit ghost camps

Ox, burro and mare: Summit transportation till the 1880's

America's highest narrow-gauge railway

Rival rails in the Ten Mile Canyon

Field guides to history: auto: Boreas Pass...bike: Ten Mile to Breckenridge and Keystone...jeep: Mayflower Gulch...county tour: old cemeteries

Summit's star cities: Parkville...Sts. John...Kokomo...Robison...Climax

The cast of characters: Lord Gore...Silverthorn family..."Commodore"...Stephen Decatur...Pug Ryan...Ben Stanley...Revett...Colonel James H. Myers...Carl Fulton

The old newspapers: journalism yellow as Summit gold

Summit's ranching history: ranches down the blue

Ranches around Frisco

Ranches around Dillon-Keystone

White gold: early days of Summit skiing

Chalk Mountain: 1930's skiers

Arapahoe Basin: the legend

Breckenridge ski area: Colorado ski leader

Keystone: roller-coaster ride to success

Copper Mountain: a mountain made to ski.