Burgess, Charles T.2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/7705Top of the pass. Chas. T. Burgess. Castle Rock, Colo.Date scanned: 2001-03-13.Identifier: NMHFM-140.Related photographs and slides: NMHFM-142, NMHFM-196, NMHFM-263, NMHFM-265, NMHFM-269, NMHFM-270, NMHFM-343, NMHFM-344, NMHFM-345, NMHFM-346, NMHFM-347, NMHFM-358, NMHFM-372, NMHFM-374.Unmounted; text on verso.Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.Donor: Charles Burgess.Photograph showing four men and a woman standing next to the rockpile and a flag that marks the summit of Mosquito Pass. Mosquito Pass, 13,187 feet in elevation, was at twenty-one miles the shortest route to Leadville from the mining camps of Park County. The Pass was heavily traveled with the new strikes in Lake County in 1878, but was a dangerous route during the winter months. A toll road was constructed by the Mosquito Pass Wagon Road Company by 1879. Construction of a rail line in 1882 replaced most of the traffic over the Pass.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlPeopleStillImage