The Desert Star
The spring of 1890 had not yet warmed the Colorado earth when Jeremiah Sullivan arrived at the gold camp near Pikes Peak. He was seventeen, carrying a canvas sack with a hole in the bottom, a rusted pickaxe, and the last twelve dollars his mother had saved from her sewing. The camp was a scatter of canvas tents and dugouts along a creek that ran brown and thin. Men moved through it like...
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