Cookbooks
Nash, Mrs. William H. Cloud City Cookbook. Herald Democrat Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1889. Download Now
General history
Elliott, Russell R., and William D. Rowley. History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. Prentice Hall, 1987. [Contains a strong Leadville chapter situating it in regional mining history.]
Graff, Marshall Conant. A History of Leadville, Colorado. Leadville, 1947.
Griswold, Don L., and Jean Harvey Griswold. History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado: From Mountain Solitude to Metropolis. 2 vols., Colorado Historical Society, 1996.
Klucas, Gillian. Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Noel, Thomas J., and Paul F. Mahoney. Leadville. University Press of Colorado, 2014. [Photo-rich overview by Colorado’s leading historian.]
Ubbelohde, Carl, Maxine Benson, and Duane A. Smith. A Colorado History. 10th ed., University Press of Colorado, 2006. [General text with concise, scholarly coverage of Leadville’s boom.]
Wolle, Muriel Sibell. Cloud Cities of Colorado. Sage Books, 1934.
Ice Palace
Weir, Darlene Godat. Leadville’s Ice Palace: A Colossus in the Colorado Rockies. Ice Castle Editions, 1994.
Mining
Fell, James E., Jr. Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. University Press of Colorado, 2009. [Includes significant treatment of Leadville smelters and the labor/environmental consequences.
Lingenfelter, Richard E. The Hardrock Miners: A History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863–1893. University of California Press, 1974. [Covers the Leadville strikes within broader Western labor history.]
Voynick, Stephen M. Climax: The History of Colorado’s Climax Molybdenum Mine. Mountain Press Publishing, 1996.
Railroads
Robert Athearn. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. University of Nebraska Press, 1977
Tabors
Bancroft, Caroline. Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor. Johnson Publishing, 1955.
Furman, Evelyn. The Tabor Opera House: A Captivating History. Johnson Publishing, 1975.
Temple, Judy Nolte. Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.