The Prospector Story of the Life of Nicholas C Creede
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This trip, like all his prospecting tours west of the " Great Divide" panned poorly. Never did he make a discov- ery of importance on the western slope, and now he made a trip to Leadville. Here he met with a well -defined streak of hard luck. After hunting in vain for a fortune, he was taken with pneu- monia, lingered for a long time between life and death, but finally recovered. If Creede had died then, he would have received, probably, four lines in the Herald, which would have 112 THE PROSP...ECTOR. been to the effect that a prospector had died of pneumonia in his cabin at the head of California Gulch, and had been dead some time when discovered, as the corpse was cold and the fire out. He was of no great importance at that time, but since then he has marched from Monarch to the banks of the Rio Grande, leaving a silver trail behind him, until at last, standing on the sun- kissed summit of Bachelor mountain, he can look back along the trail and see the camp-fires that he lighted with tired hands, trembling in the cold, burning brightly where the waste places have been made glad by the building of hundreds of happy homes.
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