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Historic towns in Colorado

Breckenridge Town is very old in Colorado, and its history can be traced back to the gold rush in the west.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/859, gold was suddenly discovered in the nearby blue valley. This news excites many Americans who dream of getting rich. It is said that more than 8,000 miners poured in here at that time, and their arrival promoted commerce, catering, entertainment, pornography and even laundry.

The main street in the center of the town 103, the Golden Plate Salon, which is still open, is proud of its status as the oldest bar in the west of the Mississippi River. It witnessed the legend of Breckenridge. Have a drink here, and the story you hear can definitely be written into a thick western novel.

For example, anyone who talked about "the other side of the blue river" before must have alluded with malicious intent, because those beautiful girls from other places, such as grass born of water, gathered on the other side of the river with flashing lights, which was the only comfort for miners in their lonely gold-seeking life; For another example, there used to be a China native in the town, probably the first batch of left-behind China laborers. He is famous for washing clothes for miners for a living.

In the small history museum in the town, I saw many tools for panning for gold, and a photo of this China man. He wore a traditional double-breasted jacket and looked at the camera with a calm expression from the East on his face. The snow in Loki Mountain is still on the ground under his feet. I looked at him carefully, a dark face. Maybe he came across the sea from the south. In Pearl Buck's hometown, there may be a silent and determined woman like Allen, waiting for a man far away from the other side of the ocean.

I asked Christine, do Breckenridge have descendants of this kind of porcelain?

"No," she asked, and then assured me, "I heard that the China man later moved to Denver. Do you know why? He got rich, not because of the laundry, but because of the sand washed from the miners' clothes. "

I am willing and addicted to listening to such stories, just like watching one western avant-garde movie after another.

Christine has many such jokes. The old house she bought is adjacent to more than 300 houses in the19th century. Just point to one of them and she can tell her story: "Well, Sylvia, a legendary woman in Breckenridge, used to live there. She is the widow of a miner and runs a boarding house for women. She is called a prospector. Legend has it that her soul has been wandering in the house so far, and only the man she likes will let her appear. "

Or: "Look, that's Barney and Julia's home over there. How exquisite! They were black slaves who came to Breckenridge to get wealth through mining, but their lawyers kicked them out because African-Americans could not own their own property. But they didn't give in to their fate, tried to change the laws in Colorado, actively fought for their rights, and finally successfully returned to the town and turned to the high-end hotel industry.