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The D. & R. G. was also aiming at Gunnison, and another railroad race began.
The D. & R. G. started from Salida and built through Poncha Springs and over
Marshall Pass, reaching Gunnison in 1881. The South Park reached that city in ...
The D. & R. G. was also aiming at Gunnison, and another railroad race began.
The D. & R. G. started from Salida and built through Poncha Springs and over
Marshall Pass, reaching Gunnison in 1881. The South Park reached that city in ...
Page 160
A camp of the same name, which lasted but a few years, was built near the mine,
and a spur of the D. & R. G. railroad was built to it to haul away the ore. As this
camp and railroad were but four miles from Whitehorn and only a little further
from ...
A camp of the same name, which lasted but a few years, was built near the mine,
and a spur of the D. & R. G. railroad was built to it to haul away the ore. As this
camp and railroad were but four miles from Whitehorn and only a little further
from ...
Page 441
The road was A unique and daring piece of railroad engineering. Originating at
Silverton where it connects with the D. & R. G. system, it runs north twenty miles
and ends. Half of the distance it ascends the mountain at an average grade of
212 ...
The road was A unique and daring piece of railroad engineering. Originating at
Silverton where it connects with the D. & R. G. system, it runs north twenty miles
and ends. Half of the distance it ascends the mountain at an average grade of
212 ...
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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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