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Whenever .1 stayed at the hotel I always planned an early morning departure so
as to complete the day's objective before afternoon mountain showers put an end
to outdoor sketching. One morning a friend and I entered the dining room a little ...
Whenever .1 stayed at the hotel I always planned an early morning departure so
as to complete the day's objective before afternoon mountain showers put an end
to outdoor sketching. One morning a friend and I entered the dining room a little ...
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Shavano Jane and I rose early the morning of our trip to Shavano. Every time I
had passed Maysville for the past five years I had inquired the whereabouts of
the deserted town and how it could be reached. First one drove four miles to the ...
Shavano Jane and I rose early the morning of our trip to Shavano. Every time I
had passed Maysville for the past five years I had inquired the whereabouts of
the deserted town and how it could be reached. First one drove four miles to the ...
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"You remember the morning that we drove up on Battle mountain and watched
the ore trains switching below the Vindicator dump over near the Golden Cycle
property? Last June the officials of the Golden Cycle Corporation decided to junk
...
"You remember the morning that we drove up on Battle mountain and watched
the ore trains switching below the Vindicator dump over near the Golden Cycle
property? Last June the officials of the Golden Cycle Corporation decided to junk
...
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Contents
Central City panorama | 6 |
Preface | 8 |
Gold in the Hills | 10 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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