A Colorado Pioneer
By Maggie Magoffin
Born in New York on November 9, 1824, in 1860 Fayette W. Beebee and wife, Ella, came and housed themselves in an unpretentious dirt-roofed, floorless cabin on Illinois Bar. There the sluices glistened with gold and heaps of boulders everywhere attested to the discovery of its hiding places in pay streaks and on shale bedrocks.
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