Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado |
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... completely abandoned years ago , I was anxious to visit them too . To locate them was often hard enough , but to reach them in almost inaccessible parts of the Rocky Mountains resulted many times in an exciting trip or an arduous climb ...
... completely abandoned years ago , I was anxious to visit them too . To locate them was often hard enough , but to reach them in almost inaccessible parts of the Rocky Mountains resulted many times in an exciting trip or an arduous climb ...
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... completely demolished , some were torn open , and of those that were made completely of dressed marble , only the walls remained . The fire bell on its tall steel tower and the hexagonal wooden band - stand had withstood the first flood ...
... completely demolished , some were torn open , and of those that were made completely of dressed marble , only the walls remained . The fire bell on its tall steel tower and the hexagonal wooden band - stand had withstood the first flood ...
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... completely above timberline , the lower parts of it were set in groves of tall white pines . Before long more than a hundred prospectors were working over one hundred and fifty claims , " all staked on float , " for mineral was found ...
... completely above timberline , the lower parts of it were set in groves of tall white pines . Before long more than a hundred prospectors were working over one hundred and fifty claims , " all staked on float , " for mineral was found ...
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