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Charley Hatfield shook a massive wooden rocker resting in a creek bed several yards from the base of Pikes Peak in Colorado. He sloshed it from side to side in the clear mountain water, and pieces of gravel sifted through the crude screen on the device. Charley’s rough hands carefully inspected the yellow rocks that...

“Mary Ann Graves was a lovely girl, of tall and slender build, and exceptionally beautiful carriage.  Her features, her regularity, were of classic Grecian mould.  Her eyes were dark, bright, and expressive.” – Historian and author Charles McGlashan – 1880 Mary Graves Clarke, a dark haired woman with a pale face and deep age lines marking...