Up Clear Creek Canyon into the silver towns. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The ChroniclerFocus: Gold Rush & Mining Boomtowns72 km · about 51 min · 11 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Denver, Colorado
The History of Denver Union Station
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Lakewood, Colorado
The Colorado Gold Rush
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Lakewood, Colorado
The Hill Section Burials
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Golden, Colorado
The Founding of Mines
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Golden, Colorado
The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society
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Evergreen, Colorado
The Kinnikinnik Ranch History
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Evergreen, Colorado
George Jackson's Gold Discovery
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Idaho Springs, Colorado
The Labor Wars of the Rockies Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Idaho Springs, Colorado
The Labor Wars of the Rockies Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Dumont, Colorado
The Labor Wars of the Rockies Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Georgetown, Colorado
The Engineering of the Georgetown Loop
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.