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The rockers and Long Toms of the '59ers caught most of the free gold but let
much of the less precious metals escape down the streams. Prospectors in
California Gulch in the sixties cursed the heavy black sand that clogged their
sluice boxes, ...
The rockers and Long Toms of the '59ers caught most of the free gold but let
much of the less precious metals escape down the streams. Prospectors in
California Gulch in the sixties cursed the heavy black sand that clogged their
sluice boxes, ...
Page 85
Crossing a lcg footbridge over a rushing stream we picked up the trail and went
merrily along until it ended in a thicket of bushes and trees on the brink of the
same little stream. This we jumped, only to find we were on an island with the
main ...
Crossing a lcg footbridge over a rushing stream we picked up the trail and went
merrily along until it ended in a thicket of bushes and trees on the brink of the
same little stream. This we jumped, only to find we were on an island with the
main ...
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There were quite a few good-sized buildings to be seen, and some machinery
and rusty boilers, while across the stream the land was gouged out and piled up
from hydraulic operations of considerable extent, which began in 1912 and ...
There were quite a few good-sized buildings to be seen, and some machinery
and rusty boilers, while across the stream the land was gouged out and piled up
from hydraulic operations of considerable extent, which began in 1912 and ...
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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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