Author: LUNT, HORACE F. (COMMISSIONER OF MINES)
Title: The Oil Shales of Northwestern Colorado; Bulletin No. 8, State of Colorado, Bureau of Mines
Description: Denver, Eames Brothers, State Printers. 1919, First Edition. Full Leather, Gilt Titled, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Plates, Maps, Photos; Quad-folded Frontispiece. Ex-Library, Flexible Hardcover, Front cover gilt titled with the name 'O.H. Shoup', and was the property of the 22nd governor of Colorado, Oliver Henry Shoup. His family moved to Colorado Springs when he was 13. He graduated from Colorado Springs High School, attended Colorado College, and served as governor of Colorado from 1919-1923. This de-accessioned library copy came from Tutt Library of Colorado College; The textblock is stamped and stickered, else clean and tight, with all plates present, including the well preserved, quad-folded photographic frontispiece of The Book Cliffs on the northside of the valley of the Grand River between DeBeque and Grand Valley, and the Cliffs of Oil Shale along Brush Creek. The black leather binding is very worn and frayed along the spine, but holding solidly; Vast oil-yielding shales cover about 2,000 square miles of Western Colorado and the extraction of the oil, an expensive and difficult process, has been a challenge to petroleum producers in Colorado for the last 120 years. It has created boom and bust communities, political and environmental turmoil, and a fascinating aspect of Colorado history. Wynar/Depp 2785. Good+.

Keywords: Colorado Oil Shale, Oil Shale Geology, Colorado Governor Oliver H. Shoup Geology Plates, Maps, Photos; Quad-folded Frontispiece


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