Colorado Experience: Ladies of the Mines

High altitude, groceries delivered by mule train, pack rats and spoiled Thanksgiving turkeys are just a few of the challenges faced by ladies living in Colorado's remote mining towns at the end of the 19th Century. Learn the stories of three inspirational women who held their own while surrounded by a harsh landscape and un-lady-like company.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@christrinder1255]

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

[@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.

[@rahkinrah1963]

Thank you RM PBS for this wonderful series.

[@jimcole6423]

I really enjoy this series..thank you!

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable! Real Wild West! Real Pioneers!

[@SteveWalden73]

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

[@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.

[@raynonabohrer5624]

I think my great grandmother. And grandma.

[@aedynjakpoetry]

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

[@MsZoedog66]

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

[@yakkityyak9336]

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

[@kerry9025]

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

[@Shakicast]

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

[@AndreaC_303]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@joshweickum]

Witching sticks

[@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 !!