Colorado Experience: Ladies of the Mines

[@ellesea123]

Happy member of RMPBS. Tax deductible. Yet i still discover wonderful docs on here that i missed! Thank you for uploading these videos. Having been boeen born and raised here, and I am still here... Colorado is a special place. 😊

[@hallmt]

I love these, I feel like I might have had one of these guys for a history prof in college at Red Rocks or CU, which I also loved!

[@christrinder1255]

I’m enjoying this series and am learning a lot about Colorado! Thank you so much!👏👏👍😊

[@rahkinrah1963]

Thank you RM PBS for this wonderful series.

[@kentcourtney5535]

“Tomboy Bride” is a great book that describes the life of women in the mountains. I am so glad that you included Harriet Backus in this film.

[@SuperRedburn]

Thanks. I'll look that up

[@ohmomair]

Very informative video. My grandmother was born in Leadville in 1897 which was still a mining town. I think that her family struggled as well and like many others, she married young and had many children who by the Depression moved to Denver. Am very proud of our heritage and this video put a lot of things into perspective that the nostalgia is often swept under the carpet as people lived through a lot of hardship.

[@paulsuprono7225]

Learned more now about Colorado, than the nine years I lived there ! 😎 🇺🇸

[@rahkinrah1963]

I have been here for almost fifty years now...and am still learning.

[@jimcole6423]

I really enjoy this series..thank you!

[@SteveWalden73]

This episode in particular is required viewing for our kids' home education

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable! Real Wild West! Real Pioneers!

[@AuroraBoarder1]

I'm currently reading Harriet Backus' Book, "Tomboy Bride". It's fascinating! I bought the Colorado Cache Cookbook; it's my favorite. The only recipes in there that don't work for me are the baked desserts. Maybe because I live near sea level. I once had carrot cake in Colorado. It was light and dry, like angel food cake. Quite an experience!

[@ohmeowzer1]

Thank you

[@paulsuprono7225]

Women . . . created, completed the man's place, in Colorado !

[@boyo3878]

Been in Creede. Best journey of my life. Have ran into a ghost. Or what have you. Elderly lady, dressed similar to the first woman's photo in the beginning. All black, old fashioned hat with fish net draping down. Black gloves, whole outfit from A to Z. If anyone else has also saw the same thing, or have any other similar stories, I'd love to hear/read of other people's experiences as well.

[@boyo3878]

@Polly Ticks Lmao. That was great.

[@aedynjakpoetry]

Really enjoying these historic docos... are there any others for say states like arizona, new mexico and utah (along similar lines)?

[@raynonabohrer5624]

I think my great grandmother. And grandma.

[@yakkityyak9336]

18:55 OK, the turkey got rotten because of the high altitude?????

[@MsZoedog66]

Wow - it sounds like you were lucky if you reached old age. Inspirational people, though!

[@kerry9025]

*Gregory Hines?* 🤔 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤣 *(@ **9:15** - bottom left)*

[@CA-kp9lt]

whom ever named this needs help 8 minutes in and they finally mention women... still not seeing them in the mines tho

[@AndreaC_303]

They’re providing context and situational understanding. It definitely talks about women’s role in this period of Colorado history.

[@pamelawherey4583]

I read that the father bathed first and then on down till smallest child

[@AuroraBoarder1]

According to Laura Ingalls Wilder ("Little House on the Prairie"), it was the other way around. The tub was emptied and cleaned between baths.

[@maggiemae7749]

@@AuroraBoarder1 they used the same water in real life.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

@@maggiemae7749 - apparently, the Ingallses and the Wilders practiced better hygiene.

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

God bless the prostitutes that paved the way towards where we are now

[@bettyscoggins7769]

And The American Natives set back and LAUGHED AT THEIR IGNORANCE.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Betty Scoggins and I'm sure they did

[@yakkityyak9336]

@Polly Ticks I am afraid that you are correct.

[@AndreaC_303]

“The Children Long for the Mines” is still the most hilarious sentence I can fathom. Said by a Republican lawmaker.

[@franreid8203]

They died, don't glorify a terrible time of inequality and exploitation, a very romantic view of women's suffering.

[@rahkinrah1963]

We all die..regardless...

[@rahkinrah1963]

As if the men leading the way weren't suffering. This isn't "glorification". It is a statement of the facts of history.

[@kimberly1567]

Fran appears to be one of the new women that thinks men have stepped on women on their way up.

[@jackieoman6695]

Lonely try being on disability in 2020 ! Its so lonely ! Its unspeakable ! This life sounds good ! Did you hear thst fool say they enjoyed it ! Crazy fool thats how men think !!

[@joshweickum]

Witching sticks