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Page 202
Their only contact with the outside world was through letters and packages which
were carried on the back of a powerful man who never failed to mush over the
trail , even with the heaviest packs . My father remembers how he once carried a
...
Their only contact with the outside world was through letters and packages which
were carried on the back of a powerful man who never failed to mush over the
trail , even with the heaviest packs . My father remembers how he once carried a
...
Page 350
A heavily disguised figure carried under his arms the ropes ; another bore a
heavy sledge hammer ; others carried rifles and shot guns , . . . a hundred or
more unmasked citizens were in waiting at the jail . . . . Then followed the dull
thud of ...
A heavily disguised figure carried under his arms the ropes ; another bore a
heavy sledge hammer ; others carried rifles and shot guns , . . . a hundred or
more unmasked citizens were in waiting at the jail . . . . Then followed the dull
thud of ...
Page 520
During this boom the railroad carried an average of two hundred and fifty
passengers a day and one hundred tons of ore , the little narrow gauge trains
chugging up hill and coasting down grade over the serpentine route . With the
coming of ...
During this boom the railroad carried an average of two hundred and fifty
passengers a day and one hundred tons of ore , the little narrow gauge trains
chugging up hill and coasting down grade over the serpentine route . With the
coming of ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
Leadville the Cloud City of the Rockies | 41 |
Copyright | |
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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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