The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the center and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day.
Author(s): Jurgen Herbst
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 232
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Beginnings......Page 22
2 A House of Many Uses......Page 32
3 Town and School in a Wilderness......Page 42
4 A Settlement Takes Hold......Page 50
5 At High Tide......Page 64
6 School and Town in the 1880s......Page 76
7 A School in Crisis......Page 88
8 The Turbulent 1890s......Page 102
9 Silverton’s Life at Century’s End......Page 118
10 Silverton Enters the Twentieth Century......Page 134
11 Public Schooling’s Triumph: High School Graduation......Page 148
Postscript: Looking Backward and Looking Forward......Page 158
Appendix I: Silverton Public School Statistics......Page 170
Appendix II: School Directors of Silverton Public School District, 1877–1906......Page 180
Appendix III: San Juan County Superintendents of Public Schools......Page 184
Appendix IV: Colorado Territorial Superintendents of Education......Page 186
Appendix V: Silverton Public Schools, Rules for Pupils......Page 188
Appendix VI: Silverton Public Schools, Rules for Teachers......Page 190
Notes......Page 192
Bibliography......Page 210
Previously Published Books......Page 218
B......Page 220
C......Page 221
F......Page 222
H......Page 223
M......Page 224
N......Page 225
R......Page 226
S......Page 227
T......Page 229
Y......Page 230
