Tough Men in Hard Places

A Photographic Collection

Esther Greenfield (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2014 | New edition
Alaska Northwest Books (Verlag)
978-1-941821-12-1 (ISBN)

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The mines in southwestern Colorado were in trouble and needed cheap, reliable electric power to keep running. This is the story of innovative solutions to solve the problem using alternating current electricity and the incredible effort, tenacity, and toughness of the men who overcame formidable obstacles to bring electrification to the mines, ranches, homes, and businesses in the remote and rugged areas of southwestern Colorado.
Here is their story in over 80 intriguing historic photos from the Center of Southwest Studies. Tough men peer from the pages with attitude to spare next to gargantuan equipment in unforgiving terrain. Many of the photographs were taken by Philip “P. C.” Schools, power plant superintendent with the Western Colorado Power Co., whose turn-of-the-century photographs documented the coming of electricity to Southwest Colorado and from which his legacy glows.

You can find Esther in one of two places. Either she will be searching the archives at the Center of Southwest Studies, or hiking in the Weminuche Wilderness as a volunteer for the San Juan Mountains Association looking for arborglyphs. A far cry from her life in Washington, DC, where she was born and worked for the Veterans Administration. She is married and lives in Durango, Colorado.

Introduction
The Western Colorado Power Company System of Power Stations
Power Companies Emerge
An Electrical Engineer with the Eye of an Artist: Philip (P. C.) Schools
Tough Men in Hard Places
Death and Disasters
Gears, Bolts, and Marvelous Machines
Sources
Acknowledgments

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.11.2014
Zusatzinfo	92 black-and-white photos throughout
Sprache	englisch
Maße	190 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-941821-12-X / 194182112X
ISBN-13	978-1-941821-12-1 / 9781941821121
Zustand	Neuware