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Page 202
Their only contact with the cutside 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 cutside 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 377
During those years it produced another $ 18 , 000 , 000 . Of recent years the mine
has been worked to some extent but never on the grand scale that Walsh
established . On my first visit to the mine I sketched the complex group of mills ,
sheds ...
During those years it produced another $ 18 , 000 , 000 . Of recent years the mine
has been worked to some extent but never on the grand scale that Walsh
established . On my first visit to the mine I sketched the complex group of mills ,
sheds ...
Page 449
Mears never traveled over the Million Dollar Highway , but it is a road of which he
would have approved and , but for his vision of a shelf along this vertical canyon ,
it might never have been built . Save for him the steeply towering ...
Mears never traveled over the Million Dollar Highway , but it is a road of which he
would have approved and , but for his vision of a shelf along this vertical canyon ,
it might never have been built . Save for him the steeply towering ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Falsefront Silver Plume | 5 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
Copyright | |
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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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