Sidford F. Hamp
Published: 2016-09-05
Total Pages: 354
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Excerpt from The Boys of Crawford's Basin: The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado At that date, the railroads, after their long climb from the Missouri River to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, were still seeking a practica ble passage westward over that formidable bar rier, and in consequence, the mountain ranch man - who, by the way, was also sometimes a prospector and frequently a hunter - having no means of shipping his produce to the outside world, depended for his market upon one or another of the many little silver-mining camps scattered over the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.