Images

The below images accompany “‘A Transparent Medium’: Mary Hallock Foote’s The Led-Horse Claim and the Mapping of Leadville,” my article in the Winter 2017 issue of American Literary Realism.

These images are scans of the originals, which I discovered while conducting research at the American Antiquarian Society.

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Fig. 1. Utah Basin, Map II, Geological and Topological Atlas Accompanying the Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, East Half. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.

Fig. 2 North Iron Hill, United States Geological Survey, Geology of Leadville, Atlas Sheet XXVI.jpg

Fig. 2. North Iron Hill, United States Geological Survey, Geology of Leadville, Atlas Sheet XXVII. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.

Fig. 3 Map of the Mining Claims Adjoining Leadville, Eduard Rollandet, 1879.jpg

Fig 3. Map of the Mining Claims Adjoining Leadville, Eduard Rollandet, 1879. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.

Fig. 4 Map of the Principal Mining Claims in Leadville, Col., A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Wonderful Mining Country, Leadville, Colorado, C. W. Waite, Esq., Chicago: Vandercook & Company, 1879.jpg

Fig. 4. Map of the Principal Mining Claims in Leadville, Col., A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Wonderful Mining Country, Leadville, Colorado, C. W. Waite, Esq., Chicago: Vandercook & Company, 1879. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.