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Stampede to Timberline:

The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado
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Muriel Sibell Wolle, 1949 - Cities and towns - 544 pages

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I've been researching Colorado's historical ghost towns and mining camps and this classic is a great reference. Written and illustrated by an artist in the 1930's, she did a really wonderfully ... Read full review

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Contents

Central City panorama
6
Preface
8
Gold in the Hills 2 Central City Starts a Hobby
10
Copyright

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Stampede to timberline: the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado
Stampede to timberline: the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado

Snippet view - 1949
Stampede to Timberline
Stampede to Timberline
Muriel Sibell Wolle
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TitleStampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado
Illustrated byMuriel Sibell Wolle
ContributorMuriel Sibell Wolle
PublisherMuriel Sibell Wolle, 1949
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized24 Sep 2008
Length544 pages
  
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