Leadville, Colorado
From the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 1910-1911
p. 321, Vol. 15-16
Leadville, Colorado, Lake county. Mean elevation 10,500 ft.
First building erected after the silver strike, June 1877
In 1879 it had 35,000 inhabitants
“In early years Leadville was one of the most turbulent, picturesque and in all ways extraordinary, of the mining camps of the West.”
(Note by Keith: This was the time that Charlie was in Leadville.)
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