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060<br />
VICTIMS OF TIME<br />
WHILE THE MINERS THAT<br />
BUILT THEM ARE LONG GONE,<br />
COLORADO’S GHOST TOWNS<br />
STILL STAND AS STIRRING<br />
REMINDERS OF LIFE ON THE<br />
FRONTIER. BY SARAH L. STEWART<br />
GO MAGAZINE OCTOBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
THE YEAR IS 1879,<br />
and Caribou, CO, bustles with life. Though established<br />
just 9 years earlier, this outpost almost 2 miles above sea<br />
level in the mountains near Denver already has dozens<br />
of homes, a post office, a brewery, a school and a threestory<br />
hotel.
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