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Page 207
The highway runs high above a mountain stream , and for part of the distance the
old road bed of the railroad parallels the dirt road . “ Drive ten miles west of the
Butte and turn south on the road to the sawmill . Maybe you can drive to it , but ...
The highway runs high above a mountain stream , and for part of the distance the
old road bed of the railroad parallels the dirt road . “ Drive ten miles west of the
Butte and turn south on the road to the sawmill . Maybe you can drive to it , but ...
Page 208
Up the old wagon road ? It ' s a good thing you didn ' t try the railroad grade ,
cause it ' s all washed out in spots and the trestles are gone . Five miles , too , that
way . You ' d have had to crawl down from the grade to cross the stream .
Up the old wagon road ? It ' s a good thing you didn ' t try the railroad grade ,
cause it ' s all washed out in spots and the trestles are gone . Five miles , too , that
way . You ' d have had to crawl down from the grade to cross the stream .
Page 404
His guide , a powerful Swede , walked ahead breaking the road . . . . He had
Doolan tied to him by a ten - foot rope for the night was dreadfully dark , with the
wind blowing a hurricane and the snow drifting so that they could not see a foot ...
His guide , a powerful Swede , walked ahead breaking the road . . . . He had
Doolan tied to him by a ten - foot rope for the night was dreadfully dark , with the
wind blowing a hurricane and the snow drifting so that they could not see a foot ...
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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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