. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. , and went atshingle-making in Whatkam, on the he met with the misfortune of a brokenleg. and. through the inefficiency of the nine weeks through the warm weather,flat on his back. In August, he shipped on avessel to San Francisco, where, in two monthstime, the doctors had him up on crutches. Inthe fall he went to Wyandotte, and the foll
. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. , and went atshingle-making in Whatkam, on the he met with the misfortune of a brokenleg. and. through the inefficiency of the nine weeks through the warm weather,flat on his back. In August, he shipped on avessel to San Francisco, where, in two monthstime, the doctors had him up on crutches. Inthe fall he went to Wyandotte, and the follow-ing April returned to Wisconsin. He was mar-ried in November, 1860,and taught school dur-ing the following winter. In the spring of 1861,he leased a farm and worked it. and, in September, enlisted in the 11th Wis. V. I.; servedin the army eleven months, and n account ofsickness, was discharged. The following win-ter he taught school, and in May, 1863, withhis family, started across tin plains, and onJuly 28, arrived in Central City, where he hassince resided. Surrounded by strangers, with-out funds, he was obliged to work by the dayuntil the next spring. In April, 1864, he com-menced gulch-mining and continued for three. V
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