Leadville – home to about 2,600 people and the National Mining Museum — bills itself as ... Standing atop a heap of mining ...

In January 1896, one of the largest new buildings in Colorado ... ice statue of Lady Leadville stood outside the front entrance, with one arm pointing to the region’s mining district.

Leadville, Colo. (pop ... Today it is still a rowdy, frontier mining town. Queen of its night life is the Pastime’s Blonde Bobbie, who relaxes at the piano between rounds, amazes customers ...

Leadville – home to about 2,600 people and the National Mining Museum -- bills itself as ... Standing atop a heap of mining waste with Colorado’s highest summit, Mount Elbert, in the distance ...