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BRECKENRIDGE! A Guide to the Ghost Towns
| Visit mine camps resonant with echoes of Breckenridge's gold rush past. Capture the past at Gold Horseshoe gold and silver mines. |
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Tour the Historic District with BRECKENRIDGE!'s self-guided Walking Tour. View 1860s log relics, 1880s Victorian gingerbreads, 1900s brick monuments to progress. |
Explore the ghost towns around famous Breckenridge, Colorado with this detailed guidebook. Visit 1880s Preston, a once-bustling mine camp in rich gold run Gulch. Search for wire gold nuggets at the storied Wire Patch Mine. Route-finding maps and well-tested written directions get you to your historic destination.
Sample Breckenridge's 1860s gold rush buildings, 1880s miners homes, 1890s Victorian residences on the book's self-guided walking tour.
Pan for gold using the book's expert directions.
Popular Breckenridge-area author Mary Ellen Gilliland guides history buffs with auto tours to historic gold camps and mines of Breckenridge's famed Golden Horseshoe of mineral riches. Fifteen ghost towns and sites, 12 major mines, two gold dredges and 43 historic structures highlight ten intriguing, self-guided tours.
Breckenridge! is a handy guide, accurate and useful, a great companion to the author's lively local history, SUMMIT, A Gold Rush History of Summit County, Colorado and The New Summit Hiker.
Tours include:
Ghost Towns:
Boreas
plus Congers, Dyersville, Farnham
Preston
plus Braddocks, Buffalo Flats,
Delaware Flats
Rexford
plus Tiger, Swan City
Swandyke
Parkville
plus Wapiti and Lincoln
Mining:
French Gulch
The Wellington, Reiling Dredge, Wire Patch Mine
Australia Gulch
Sallie Barber, Wakefield, Gold Pan Shops
Illinois Gulch
Washington Mine
Lomax Gulch
Lomax Placer
