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Trails Among the Columbine D&RG Calumet Branch Turret Mining Area Dixon 1995/96
Trails Among the Columbine D&RGs Calumet Branch & Turret Mining Area Dixon 1995/1996 HC
Signed by Dick Dixon 2000
Trails Among the Columbine 1995/1996
The D&RGs Calumet Branch and the Turret Mining Area
By Dick Dixon Signed with an inscription on front page, signed on title pae
A Colorado High Country Anthology
Sundance Publications Limited
Hard Cover with plastic covering
320 Pages
Copyright 1996
Contents
Chapter 1
None Got a Scratch...
D&RG's Calumet Branch 15
Chapter 2
An Embarrassing Iron Deposit...
The Calumet Mine 67
Chapter 3
From Pinons to Prospects...
Cat Gulch 1880-1902 77
Chapter 4
This Camp Ought to Boom__
Turret 1903-1907 129
Chapter 5
Educators, Editors and Empathizers..
Living on Optimism 189
Chapter 6
Boom and Bust...
Mines Need a Railroad 221
Chapter 7
A Mining Camp's Epilogue...
Turret 1908-1996 311
THE D&RG's CALUMET BRANCH and THE TURRET MINING AREA started in August of 1972 as an afternoon exploration of the maze of roads branching from the Ute Trail northeast of Salida, Colorado. I had been in Chaffee County about a week and was sightseeing. Eventually, I found myself looking at what had to have been a town. A bullet-riddled, hand-painted sign told me I was in Turret.
With fascination and awe, I wandered among remnants of the lives of other people, wondering who they were. Darkness fell, and I left reluctantly. Although I did not realize it then, I was infected with the wonderful "virus" of Cat Gulch. Like men and women who founded the town, I was captivated by the place.
As I looked for published information to satisfy my curiosityand found almost noneI sought people who could tell me about Turret. I met Steve Frazee and his sister, Ethel Purdom, both of whom lived in the little camp long after it passed its prime. They told me enough that I had to know more, and a 24-year search began.
I found photographs, documents, former residents still living and microfilm copies of the TURRET GOLD BELT. I learned Turret was the product of a more general western movement. It was peopled by frontiersmen and women who had no place to pioneer because the centuries-old American frontier had disappeared after 1890. They were trapped by changing times. A decade earlier, they would have moved on. As a result, Turret has never been completely abandonedand is not today.
Microfilm files of the WHITEHORN NEWS filled information voids, but forced me into other newspapers to find more bits and pieces. As names became "people," I tried to locate them or their heirs. The search ranged from Kentucky to California, and from Alaska through Canada to Texas.
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