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Page 146
... cabins set back from the lake shore . Behind it towers Mt. Elbert , Colorado's highest peak , on whose sides were the mines which drew the early prospectors to this vicinity . A small mining camp named Dayton was built at approximately ...
... cabins set back from the lake shore . Behind it towers Mt. Elbert , Colorado's highest peak , on whose sides were the mines which drew the early prospectors to this vicinity . A small mining camp named Dayton was built at approximately ...
Page 164
... cabins , we stopped to study them . There were quite a num- ber dotted through the trees and beside the road , and there were clearings in the timber where other roads had been hacked out to form crude streets which joined others ...
... cabins , we stopped to study them . There were quite a num- ber dotted through the trees and beside the road , and there were clearings in the timber where other roads had been hacked out to form crude streets which joined others ...
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... cabins in Lulu . Far away at the head of the valley was Lulu Pass and across it lay Teller City , another ghost camp of the same era , which was to be my next objective . The little hotel at Rand was full , but the proprietor Mr ...
... cabins in Lulu . Far away at the head of the valley was Lulu Pass and across it lay Teller City , another ghost camp of the same era , which was to be my next objective . The little hotel at Rand was full , but the proprietor Mr ...
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