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Page 146
The town of Twin Lakes consists of a combined store and filling station , a hotel ,
a schoolhouse and a cluster of cottages and cabins set back from the lake shore .
Behind it towers Mi . Elbert , Colorado ' s highest peak , on whose sides were ...
The town of Twin Lakes consists of a combined store and filling station , a hotel ,
a schoolhouse and a cluster of cottages and cabins set back from the lake shore .
Behind it towers Mi . Elbert , Colorado ' s highest peak , on whose sides were ...
Page 164
Reaching the cabins , we stopped to study them . There were quite a number
dotted through the trees and beside the road , and there were clearings in the
timber where other roads had been hacked out to form crude streets which joined
...
Reaching the cabins , we stopped to study them . There were quite a number
dotted through the trees and beside the road , and there were clearings in the
timber where other roads had been hacked out to form crude streets which joined
...
Page 270
The little hotel at Rand was full , but the proprietor Mr . Leatherman , gave us
lodging in a log cabin with a sod roof ... that the road up Jack Creek was rough ,
that it could be driven but that only some broken down cabins were left at the
camp .
The little hotel at Rand was full , but the proprietor Mr . Leatherman , gave us
lodging in a log cabin with a sod roof ... that the road up Jack Creek was rough ,
that it could be driven but that only some broken down cabins were left at the
camp .
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Leadville the Cloud City of the Rockies | 41 |
Dredge Country | 105 |
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| Title | Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado |
| Author | Muriel Sibell Wolle |
| Illustrated by | Muriel Sibell Wolle |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Sage Books, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 0804006725, 9780804006729 |
| Length | 583 pages |
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