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Little London Press [Published date: 1968]. Soft cover, 30 pp. Ninth Printing, 1980.
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In very good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Contents include: Introduction by Ted S. McKee; Before the Trains Came; The Florence & Cripple Creek - "The Gold Belt Line"; The Midland Terminal - "Historic Ute Indian Trail Route"; The Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District - "The Short Line"; Street Cars; Afterwards; The Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge; bibliography. [From Introduction] No story of early Colorado could be written without at least passing mention of the railroads which plunged into the state's mountain vastness at scores of points. The lines wound along on narrow shelf roadbeds hacked out of canyon walls, climbed to dizzying heights above timberline, roared through networks of tunnels, cuts and fills, each an engineering marvel. For it was the railroads that brought people into this raw land . . . farmers, cattlemen, merchants, miners and madams . . . and it was the railroads that carried the rich ores out of the mountains to reach the markets of the world . . . The study of these early railroads is both rewarding and fascinating. Buffs have literally devoted lifetimes to reading, searching for old photos, tramping abandoned roadbeds and eagerly collecting artifacts as they reach back through time to learn the story of the little engines and big men who built the state of Colorado, The result is one of the best documented and thoroughly researched histories in the country today. . . Yet with all this excellent research material, there is a serious gap: few, if any, popular references have been written for the casual reader. . . Leland Feitz has taken a giant step toward filling that gap. This volume supplies the answers to many questions about the railroads of Cripple Creek, quickly, succinctly and certainly in adequate detail for the average reader. . . Travel now back into a history filled with chuffing steam engines, hardrock miners, construction feats unequalled in railroad annals, and people with a mighty dream and the sheer guts to make it come true.
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