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CHAPTER X I V GUNNISON GUNNISON RIVER UNCOMPAHGRE MT . Lake
City and Hinsdale LAKE FORK HENSON , " CAPITOL CITY SLUMGULLION
PASS OURAY County LAKE CITY NIMAS FORKS LAKE SAN CRISTOBAL
BIVER LAKE ...
CHAPTER X I V GUNNISON GUNNISON RIVER UNCOMPAHGRE MT . Lake
City and Hinsdale LAKE FORK HENSON , " CAPITOL CITY SLUMGULLION
PASS OURAY County LAKE CITY NIMAS FORKS LAKE SAN CRISTOBAL
BIVER LAKE ...
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In the spring of 1874 some prospectors ran across his camp and the mutilated
bodies of his victims not far from Lake San Cristobal ; four of the men had
apparently been murdered as they slept , but the fifth had put up a struggle .
In the spring of 1874 some prospectors ran across his camp and the mutilated
bodies of his victims not far from Lake San Cristobal ; four of the men had
apparently been murdered as they slept , but the fifth had put up a struggle .
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Just beyond the town along the bank of the Animas river stands a big empty mill
with a whole battery of windows down its sides , but not until I had shown my
sketch to a miner in Silverton did I discover what I ' d drawn . " That ' s the Silver
Lake ...
Just beyond the town along the bank of the Animas river stands a big empty mill
with a whole battery of windows down its sides , but not until I had shown my
sketch to a miner in Silverton did I discover what I ' d drawn . " That ' s the Silver
Lake ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
Leadville the Cloud City of the Rockies | 41 |
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Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado Muriel Sibell Wolle No preview available - 1991 |
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