Historic Georgetown, Inc. is pleased to announce that a history of Georgetown between the years 1859 and 1896 is being written by Duane A. Smith, professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, and Christine A. Bradley, Clear Creek County Archivist. Research materials from the collection of the late Dr. Liston E. Leyendecker were used in the writing of the manuscript, along with one chapter, "Georgetown, 1878," which comes from a Devil's Gate History Club presentation made by Dr. Leyendecker in 1996.

Both co-authors considered Liston a treasured friend. Duane and Liston shared a lifelong love of mining and western history; Christine studied with Liston at CSU, continuing their friendship into later years when he would come to the Archives to research, sharing talks of history over many pleasant hours.

The first draft of the publication has been submitted to the acquisitions editor at University of Colorado Press, and is awaiting final approval for publication. The book is expected to be about 250 pages of text with photographs, maps and illustrations throughout, plus three photo essays that will be printed on photo-quality paper.