GC1GAVNThem Thar Hills
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By: cameltrekor@
| Hide Date: 09/14/2008
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 54.110 W105° 27.265 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
short but sweet, and all up.Prospecting in South Park A story is told of a party of men who crossed the Front Range in July, 1859 and traveled into South Park. “They descended into the magnificent basin as beautiful a vision, seen from the summit of the Kenosha Range, as ever mortal eye beheld in the Rocky Mountains. A broad, smooth and comparatively level plain, surrounded by mountains and threaded by numerous effluents of the Platte River, debauched from the lofty ranges on either side. Skirting the northwestern rim of the Park, after two days spent in prospecting without results, they came to a creek … a member of the party, weary and footsore, perhaps a little discouraged withal from the long tramp exclaimed ‘we have traveled far enough; let us tarry here.’ ‘Yes’ said another, ‘we’ll tarry all,’ and by unanimous consent the stream and the district were christened ‘Tarryall.’ ”
The stream bed yielded colors in abundance; reports of the find spread, and soon a multitude of pilgrims poured into the camp. At that time all the placer ground had been staked off into claims; and the owners would not divide. So the newcomers moved on 30 miles or so and uncovered gold in the deep gravel bars of the Platte; they named the new camp Fairplay, thus expressing their unflattering opinion of the men at Tarryall.
There's a fun way up and an easy way up, pick appropriately.
Them Thar Hills
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