page_title: Leadville, Colorado
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Leadville, Colorado / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Manhattan Bar, Leadville. A bar of rather dubious reputation, it nonetheless is one of our more well-known establishments. Most know it by its nickname.
context_page_description: Leadville is the statutory city that is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 2,602 at the 2010 census and an estimated 2,762 in 2018. Leadville is situated at an elevation of 10,152 feet.
  A former silver mining town that lies among the headwaters of the Arkansas River in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the Leadville Historic District contains many historic structures and sites in its dynamic mining era. In the late 19th century, Leadville was the second most populous city in Colorado, after Denver. Leadville is notable for having many 14,000 foot peaks viewable from town.
context_section_description: Film
  The Unsinkable Molly Brown
  Silver Dollar, with Edward G. Robinson and Bebe Daniels playing fictionalized versions of Horace A. W. Tabor and Baby Doe Tabor
  Day of the Dead, setting but not filming location.
  Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: the Leadville Airport in the first few minutes was dressed as the National Guard Leadville Airbase.
  Silver City: The downtown strip of Leadville, plus locations around the county were featured.
  Switchback, some filming locations.
  Race Across the Sky: Film series about The Leadville 100 endurance mountain bike race.
  Television/Music
  Pepsi's Super Bowl XXX ad, "Northern Exposure" dressed Leadville as an Alaskan logging town.
  The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1956 opera by Douglas Moore
  "Incommunicado", by Jimmy Buffett, M.L. Benoit, and Deborah McColl. Buffett mentions Leadville in the lyrics of this song.
  Literature
  Angle of Repose, a 1972 novel by Wallace Stegner
  Plague Year, a 2007 novel by Jeff Carlson. In this novel, Leadville is the new U.S. capital with a population of 650,000 refugees.
  Plague War, a 2008 award-nominated sequel by Jeff Carlson.  Leadville becomes the scene of international espionage and betrayal as world war consumes the planet.
  The Canary Trainer, a 1993 novel by Nicholas Meyer.
  Born to Run, a 2009 nonfiction title by Christopher McDougall
  Against the Day, a 2006 novel by Thomas Pynchon. Much of the story is set in Colorado mining towns at the end of the 19th century.
  Silver Lies, a 2003 novel by Ann Parker 
  Wilde West, a 1991 novel by Walter Satterthwait built around Oscar Wilde's visit to Leadville on a tour of the American West.
  The Golden Fury, a 1949 novel by Marian Castle (published by Morrow) with the setting in Leadville and Denver at the turn of the 20th century.
caption: "The Hat", a Leadville bar of "rather dubious reputation."
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