| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Thomas F. Walsh: Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon. By John C. Stewart. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. xviii + 230 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

The central thesis of this first biography of Thomas F. Walsh seems to be that "financial success and simple humanity can readily work together" (p. 178). Thomas Walsh was an Irish immigrant who became enormously wealthy through the discovery and development of the Camp Bird gold mine of western Colorado in the middle 1890s. Nearly overnight, Walsh's life went from one of moderate comfort in Colorado's mining centers to one of lavish wealth centered among the elite circles of the East Coast. As Stewart's gentle-handed study suggests, Walsh managed this transition with aplomb. Stewart makes the interesting claim that Walsh's ability to maintain his human decency and concern for others even after acquiring enormous wealth and political influence resulted from the timing of his success, which occurred as the extremes of the Gilded Age were giving way to the more socially oriented ideals of the Progressive Era

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