The Passing of the Storm

by Alfred Castner King

Published in 1907 by Fleming Revell, measures 7 1/4" by 5", with 136 pages--gold edging on all sides of the pages. This epic poem/ ballad about miners and settlers of the Old West was written by a miner who lost his eyesight in a mining explosion.

136 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2003

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[Bettie]

Read here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42422

DEDICATION

TO A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING CLASS, THE PIONEER
PROSPECTORS, WHOSE BRAVERY, INTELLIGENCE AND
INDUSTRY BLAZED THE TRAILS IN THE WESTERN
WILDERNESS FOR ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND MADE
POSSIBLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT WEST,
THIS VOLUME IS VERY RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

"The mountains lay in calm repose
Slumbering 'neath their robes of white." See page 17

[Mandy]

The Passing of the Storm and Other Poems by ALfred Castner King (1907)

[Gregory Rothbard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alfred Castner King gets the essence of what is the Colorado Experience.