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time a few more cabins were built, and a schoolhouse, which is now over sixty
years old, was established for the ranch children of the vicinity. Butte Beyond
Jack's Cabin the road leads to a barricade of peaks, one of which is the Crested
Butte, ...
time a few more cabins were built, and a schoolhouse, which is now over sixty
years old, was established for the ranch children of the vicinity. Butte Beyond
Jack's Cabin the road leads to a barricade of peaks, one of which is the Crested
Butte, ...
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Once he floundered over the hardest trail of all, Pearl Pass, from Crested Butte to
Ashcroft. "Snowslides took many lives around here. The weight of the snow on
these steep slopes caused it to run often. So many miners were lost in slides that
...
Once he floundered over the hardest trail of all, Pearl Pass, from Crested Butte to
Ashcroft. "Snowslides took many lives around here. The weight of the snow on
these steep slopes caused it to run often. So many miners were lost in slides that
...
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Smith Hill that we might go to Floresta, another ghost camp that I had heard of in
the vicinity of Crested Butte. It was September, the weather was perfect, the
aspens were turning the hillsides to molten gold and we felt equal to anything.
Smith Hill that we might go to Floresta, another ghost camp that I had heard of in
the vicinity of Crested Butte. It was September, the weather was perfect, the
aspens were turning the hillsides to molten gold and we felt equal to anything.
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Contents
Central City panorama | 6 |
Preface | 8 |
Gold in the Hills | 10 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Stampede to timberline: the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado |
| Illustrated by | Muriel Sibell Wolle |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Sage Books, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc Colorado Extinct cities History / United States / State & Local / West Mines and mineral resources Technology & Engineering / Mining |
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