Long-versed as we’ve been, deep-footed in pioneer doggerel, blind poet fancies & sing-song sentimentalities — those Victorian staples of mining camp news- papers in post-statehood Colorado – it came as a shock, full-wattage & fresh from the ore-dredge metrics of gold-rush Breckenridge: the poems of Belle Turnbull Came to us via the hands of scholars […]