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Miners, merchants, and missionaries : the roles of missionaries and pioneer churches in the Colorado gold rush and its aftermath, 1858-1870

Title
Miners, merchants, and missionaries : the roles of missionaries and pioneer churches in the Colorado gold rush and its aftermath, 1858-1870 / by Alice Cowan Cochran.
Author
Cochran, Alice Cowan.
Publication
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press ; [Philadelphia] : American Theological Library Association, 1980.

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Description
xi, 287 pages; 22 cm.
Series Statement
ATLA monograph series ; no. 15
Uniform Title
ATLA monograph series ; no. 15.
Subject
  • To 1876
  • Missions > Colorado
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Colorado
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Gold mines and mining
  • Missions
  • Goldgräber
  • Kirche
  • Gold Rush
  • Verkondiging
  • Colorado > Gold discoveries
  • Colorado > Church history
  • Colorado > History > To 1876
  • Colorado
  • Staat Colorado
Genre/Form
  • Church history.
  • History.
Note
  • Originally presented as the author's thesis, Southern Methodist University.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-276) and index.
Contents
The Colorado gold rush, 1858-1861 -- Missionaries in bonanza land : the churches respond to the gold rush -- Colorado's political, social, and economic development in the aftermath of the gold rush : 1861-1870 -- The missionaries at work : preaching, revivals, and social reforms -- The roles of Colorado Christians in the pioneer society -- Civilization and destiny in Colorado pioneers' thought -- Cooperation and competition among denominations on the Colorado frontier -- Minority groups on the Colorado frontier -- Conclusions and epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0810813254
  • 9780810813250
LCCN
80016895
OCLC
  • ocm06421167
  • 6421167
  • SCSB-1808319
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library