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... house , my first adventure with Central City over . Thereafter I returned to Central as often as I could persuade a friend to drive me , each time sketching more of the picturesque buildings , crooked steep streets and empty shaft houses ...
... house , my first adventure with Central City over . Thereafter I returned to Central as often as I could persuade a friend to drive me , each time sketching more of the picturesque buildings , crooked steep streets and empty shaft houses ...
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... property . " Himrod now patented his claim but did not visit it again until 1887 , when he found a man named Comer sinking a shaft on it , unaware that the land was patented . Himrod gave him a contract to continue digging and the real ...
... property . " Himrod now patented his claim but did not visit it again until 1887 , when he found a man named Comer sinking a shaft on it , unaware that the land was patented . Himrod gave him a contract to continue digging and the real ...
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... house and above that , in the last patch of timber , are the cabins where the miners lived . Above the cabins , above timberline , on the mountain tops are the mines and shaft houses . I trudged on . The grove of trees was behind me now ...
... house and above that , in the last patch of timber , are the cabins where the miners lived . Above the cabins , above timberline , on the mountain tops are the mines and shaft houses . I trudged on . The grove of trees was behind me now ...
Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
West of the Divide | 7 |
Central City panorama | 13 |
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