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Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado
"High on a windy
ridge gently sloping toward the west, Caribou buried its dead.
In the words of the people of Cornwall, England, who made up a large
portion of Caribou's population
-- Cousin Jacks as they were called --
'Many a person was bahrn, mah-ried and bah-ried in Caribou.'
Only a few headstones have withstood the elements that tear down mountains.
Sunken depressions mark the other graves."
Passing through a forgotten ghost town,
climbing on foot about 1/2 mile up and on the left, facing the Arapahoe
Mountain and Baldy Mountain, you reach the fenced cemetery, the tombstones
are missing; a few graves can be located by broken stones and fences, but
the identifies remain a mystery.
The aspen trees quake in the wind as though to whisper the secrets
of the glories days of Caribou. |
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