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Duane A. Smith

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.

Durango Diary II: 1890s - 1945
Duane A. Smith

Women to the Rescue:
Creating Mesa Verde National Park
Duane A. Smith

Travels and Travails: Tourism at Mesa Verde
Duane A. Smith and William C. Winkler

Durango Diary
Duane A. Smith

New Deal Days: The CCC at Mesa Verde
Ronald C. Brown and Duane A. Smith

San Juan Sampler : Selections from the Nina Heald Webber
Southwest Colorado Postcard Collection
Various Authors