Pioneers of the Colorado Front Range. The Masons, Fosters, Allens, and Hammontrees. A Family History. 2002.

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Schafer, Rollie Jr., 1942-. Pioneers of the Colorado Front Range. The Masons, Fosters, Allens, and Hammontrees. A Family History.

Pioneers of the Colorado Front Range. The Masons, Fosters, Allens, and Hammontrees. A Family History. 2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427455898

"This family narrative follows four families [John Bartlett Mason, Joseph B. Foster, Perkins Allen, and James John Hammontree] as their lives converge in Colorado in the 1860s and early 1870s (Chapters I-IV). A fifth family is that of Anderson Lafayette Mason and Nancy Eleanor Foster who met, then married in Central City, Colorado in 1875-1876 (Chapter V). Lafe and Nancy Mason raised their two boys, Charles Lewis and Harry Eugene Mason in Balarat Camp and Jamestown, Colorado. The sixth chapter brings together these families through the marriage of Charles Lewis Mason and Mabel Theresa Allen, from whom we descend in the 20th Century (Chapter VI). The final chapter, "The Mason Siblings", summarizes the lives of the children of Charles and Mabel Mason in the 20th century to about 1960 (Chapter VII)." "They came to Boulder County, Colorado in the 1860s and 1870s after working on the Transcontinental Railroad (Anderson Lafayette Mason), coming west again for a second try at a better life (Joseph B. Foster and Mary Ellen Nichols), coming to mine gold, then settling in the Boulder Valley near Valmont (Perkins and Roxena S. Allen), or to farm and ranch at Valmont (James John Hammontree and Mary Ann Means)." [Extracted from the Preface.].

vii, [255]p. (loose-leaf); ill., photos.

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