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Central City continued From the school we walked down the steep flight of
wooden stairs to the level of the highway , and my escort showed me several old
frame houses still adorned with bargeboards so delicately carved that they hung
like ...
Central City continued From the school we walked down the steep flight of
wooden stairs to the level of the highway , and my escort showed me several old
frame houses still adorned with bargeboards so delicately carved that they hung
like ...
Page 309
He showed us chunks of quartz , too , with seams of gold in them from his claim
on Spanish creek near the summit of the range . It was rough country , but he
swore there were lots of outcroppings of free gold up near his diggings . Nearly
every ...
He showed us chunks of quartz , too , with seams of gold in them from his claim
on Spanish creek near the summit of the range . It was rough country , but he
swore there were lots of outcroppings of free gold up near his diggings . Nearly
every ...
Page 396
The map showed a road as far as La Plata City ; so we turned up the canyon ,
looking for the old camp and keeping a sharp lookout for mine dumps , cabins ,
mills or other typical clues . The canyon road ran beside the river and climbed ...
The map showed a road as far as La Plata City ; so we turned up the canyon ,
looking for the old camp and keeping a sharp lookout for mine dumps , cabins ,
mills or other typical clues . The canyon road ran beside the river and climbed ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Leadville the Cloud City of the Rockies | 41 |
Dredge Country | 105 |
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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