Peter Kenworthy
1 book in the catalogue, published 2005.
Peter Kenworthy wrote Bank Job, the account of Telluride banker C. D. Waggoner and the 1929 scheme that made him a local legend. He was a banker in Telluride himself when he did the research. Bank Job is the one book we have on record for him.
About Peter Kenworthy
What we know about Kenworthy comes from the book's description. It says he was a banker in Telluride, Colorado, when he researched what it calls the bank job of the century. That is a useful credential for this subject, because Waggoner's story turns on how small banks and the big New York banks dealt with one another in 1929.
An Open Library author record exists for Kenworthy, but it carries no birth or death dates, and we found no reliable biography online. Rather than guess, we will say only what the description supports.
What the books share
Kenworthy's single book stays close to one town and one man. Bank Job asks whether a banker who saved a community's deposits in the 1929 crash was a hero, a villain or both, and it does not hide that Waggoner had a gambling problem. The subject headings in our catalogue include embezzlement, which fits the darker half of that question. Everything is set in the mining country of southwest Colorado, in a town whose mines were already dying.
The subjects this author is catalogued under. Open Library record.
Next steps for readers of this author
Researching Telluride's banking past
Ask the museum's research desk about local banks and newspapers, after listing the names and dates you already know.
Visiting Telluride in the shoulder season
The museum's site says it closes for part of the fall, so check its calendar before planning around it.
Weighing a true story's heroes
Read the book alongside local newspapers, then decide for yourself how to judge a banker.
Go deeper
Bank Job is set in Telluride, where the town museum and a state reference page cover the mining era the story sits inside.
Telluride Historical Museum
A museum that, according to its website, collects artifacts, archives and photographs of Telluride and San Miguel County.
Telluride Museum research requests
Explains how to submit a research question and lists digitized sources, including a photo archive and historic newspapers.
Telluride, Colorado Encyclopedia
Notes the town was founded as a mining center in 1878 and was first called Columbia.
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