As Election Day 1876 neared, politicians hit the stump in Colorado’s mining boomtowns; Candidates for the Centennial State’s lone congressional seat faced off in an open-air debate in Lake City

As Election Day 1876 neared, politicians hit the stump in Colorado’s mining boomtowns; Candidates for the Centennial State’s lone congressional seat faced off in an open-air debate in Lake City

With Republicans in control in Denver and southern Colorado considered solidly Democratic, the swing counties in Colorado’s 1876 election lay in its mountain mining districts.