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| Prologue: Pike's Peak or Bust | |
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| A few words about what and who came before | |
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| The First Magicians | |
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| A. G. Kelley, Kelleysburg, Abe Lee and gold in California Gulch | |
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| Fate and H. A. W. Tabor | |
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| A diet of coffee, beans and gold | |
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| Waiting | |
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| A new state, a new county, and the mother lode | |
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| A visit from Dr. Hayden | |
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| Uncle Billy Stevens, Alvinus B. Wood, and the Rock mine | |
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| Anybody Can Do It | |
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| Some famous discoveries and discoverers on Carbonate, Iron, and Breece hills | |
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| The Gallaghers and the governor get rich | |
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| How to find a mine; a few that were lost | |
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| The Magic City | |
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| The coming of Leadville; a name, a town, a legend | |
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| Roads, stagelines, bad weather, and a taste of things to come | |
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| Susan Anthony comes to visit; William Lovell comes to stay | |
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| Mr. Fryer's Hill | |
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| Some tales of rags to riches | |
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| George H. Fryer and the New Discovery | |
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| Tabor, two German cobblers, and Little Pittsburg | |
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| Chicken Bill salts a mine, and Chicago clothiers line their pockets with Leadville silver | |
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| A Pilgrim's First Glance | |
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| A place to sleep and something to eat | |
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| Who were they and where did they all come from | |
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| An unpardonable story about fur bearing trout, and some facts and figures about life in the Magic City in '78 and '79 | |
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| Boom Town After Dark | |
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| Saloons, beer halls, gambling dens, dance halls, houses that were seldom homes, and Leadville theater | |
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| Some famous and not so famous night people--patron, performer, proprietor | |
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| The Wheels of Progress | |
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| Lawyers, doctors, dentists, and newsmen | |
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| The world of Orth Stein, underground caverns, abominable snowman, and a lost Egyptian ship | |
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| Mule skinners, freighting, assaying, smelting, charcoal kilns, and smoke | |
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| The Rough Element | |
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| Lot jumpers, bunko artists, a gallery of not-so-heroes, the lynching of Frodsham and Stewart, the alternate reigns of footpads and vigilantes, plus the saga of Marshall Duggan | |
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| Society of Sorts | |
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| All about church bells, school bells, and the belle of the ball | |
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| The Blues, colored teas, and Sunday outings | |
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| Artists of sorts, and artistic endeavors, also of sorts | |
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| Trials of Growing Up | |
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| Playing postoffice and fireman; the civilizing influence of running water, runaway horses, and running arguments over fire fighting, street railways, and litter | |
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| Railroads, telegraph, telephone, and light | |
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| Reality Comes to Stay | |
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| Failure ... the Little Pittsburg and the miners' bid for better conditions | |
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| Silver drops and the water rises | |
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| The Downtown district, John Campion, James J. Brown, and the Little Jonny | |
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| Strike | |
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| The tragic miners' strike of 1896 | |
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| The burning of the Coronado, the murder of Jerry O'Keefe, and the militia's control of Leadville | |
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| Scabs, vags, the eight hour day, and soup kitchens | |
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| End of an Era | |
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| A number of good-byes, the winter of 1898/1899 | |
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| Building for the future, preserving the past | |
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| A short railroad war, some stories of ghosts | |
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| Triumph and Tragedy | |
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| Zinc and money on Bartlett Mountain | |
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| Underground banquets and tunnels, bootlegging, and boom times | |
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| A panic, a war, an epidemic, a strike all take their toll. Little left but hope | |
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| Hard Times | |
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| The twenties, the demise of prohibition, the smelter industry and Captain Blue | |
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| The glorious Tenth, the inglorious drainage tunnel, the innocent eagerness of the fifties, and the anger of the sixties | |
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| Index | |