Gilpin Gold

"Carr, Jr. accepted Mr. Swinney's offer and in the summer of 1887 traveled more than a thousand miles by train and then stagecoach over Berthoud Pass and on to Yampa Valley, where his employer met him and as soon as possible took him to the Gilpin prospect. Young Carr was a dreamer if ever there was one. He fully expected to make his fortune on Gilpin gold. This is mainly Carr's story, but woven through it, is the story of Steamboat Springs in its infancy, and an account of homesteaders in Elk River valley as they began to tame the wild meadows." -Lulita Crawford Pritchett