Episode Detail: The Rockies: Striking It Rich - Classroom
Entrepreneurs in the Rockies. Included: William Byers, "Denver's Greatest Liar;" Horace Tabor, the "Silver King" of Leadville, Colo.; Adolph Coors, who sought to "quench the thirst and ease the pain of Rocky Mountain miners;" and Dennis Washington, a self-made construction tycoon who reopened the troubled Anaconda Copper mine in Butte, Mont. Host: Peter Fonda.