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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DENVER PUBLIC<br />
LIBRARY, WESTERN HISTORY COLLEC-<br />
TION (LEFT), SAM POLCER (RIGHT)<br />
When the snow comes, as it does for eight months<br />
each year, it piles so high that Sherman Hotel guests use<br />
the upstairs windows to enter and exit. A rope secured<br />
in the middle of town leads to the nearby mineshaft,<br />
so miners can fumble to and from work in blizzards.<br />
Despite the harsh climate, a few thousand pioneers<br />
have flocked to Caribou for the silver ore beneath its<br />
(left) Main Street in Caribou, CO, between 1875 and 1885 (right) Caribou today<br />
surface, laboring in mines that will generate $1 million<br />
that year.<br />
But the people who call thriving Caribou home<br />
during this time are unaware of the devastation that<br />
awaits. A diphtheria epidemic will claim the lives of<br />
children—such as siblings Anna, Willie and Alice<br />
May—who will die within three days of one another.<br />
OCTOBER <strong>2009</strong> GO MAGAZINE<br />
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